SKYLAB Digital Forester

Aerial plantation inventory and stock modelling 

 

 With our Digital Forester algorithms, we analyse your drone or plane images to provide you with a precise inventory of your plantation. We deliver digital terrain and tree height models, tree densities, height statistics and stock modelling. So you can make better decisions, reduce costs and maximise productivity. 

 

Tree Height Model, tree count and heights

YOUR BENEFITS AND SAVINGS

  • Reduce terrestrial sampling by up to 90%
  • Faster, fully-digital data, no need for manual data-entry or processing
  • 100% coverage of stand at no extra cost
  • Immediately see performance variation and failures across the whole stand
  • Better harvest planning, optimised pricing for selling or buying standing stock.
  • Foresters can focus on quality and management actions
  • Clear and easy-to-use maps can be customised to your requirements

HOW IT WORKS

  • Diameter and height correlations used to derive volume functions for your plantations
  • Uncertainty inherent in spot sampling is massively reduced because we analyse 100% of your plantation or stand
  • Height accuracy: 97%
  • Volume accuracy: 90-95%
  • Just use standard drones, such as DJI Mavic

Optimised sampling design


Maximise your starting stock to achieve optimum yields and ROI. No more ‘dead capital’ in underperforming hectares. Density maps provide clear evidence for success-based planting payments.

Questions? Need help to get started?

Please contact Albrecht von Ruffer

ruffer@skylabglobal.com 

+49 177 65 15 964


How it works.

PROCESS

Upload your data to SKYLAB servers and tell us about your goals for the data analsyis. Full forest inventory or just an orthomosaic with tree count? Simple stress index map or a fully fledged bark beetle infection analysis? Just a 3D Pointcloud of your power line or rail track or with full vegetation and risk mapping? Select your desired parameters for high quality processing and we will quality check and process your data with short response times and recommendations for future quality improvements on the raw data.

OUTPUT

Our algorithms carry out the analysis of your raw data to provide you with the desired, high quality output. Resulting maps and data are made available via the SKYLAB Tileserver in GeoTIFF tiles as well as vectorized datafiles for easy integration into your GIS tools. You can also view the results on your mobile device anywhere in the field.

We are happy to help you make the most of the results by assisting you with the integration into your management system as well as with the further interpretation of the results to achieve your desired objective.