Environment & Forestry

Forestry

Forest monitoring and management requires large, and sometimes vast, areas to be analysed and maintained, and is therefore well suited to remote sensing solutions. For commercial forestry however, any service must be cost-effective as well as convenient, and also be able to provide the resolution and accuracy required if manual inspection is to be replaced. 

Our solutions have been developed over several years and proven across different continents and tree species, and can be tailored to suit the needs of forestry agencies, commercial businesses, parks and other parties maintaining or interested in forest management or monitoring. We offer mainly satellite-based services, deliverable as reports or via API, due to the coverage achievable, sensor data quality and modalities available, but can also process aircraft or drone-captured visible, near infrared, thermal, SAR and LIDAR data.

Applications include:

• Tree detection and mapping
• Tree height mapping
• Tree counting
• Detecting deforestation
• Monitoring planting and regrowth
• Finding fires and burned areas
• Detecting other species of interest (e.g. gorse)

Environmental Monitoring

Monitoring environmental impact, understanding sustainability and managing carbon neutrality are all, increasingly, important facets of many businesses, governments and organisations worldwide. We are proud to play a part in helping monitor what matters, affordably and effectively.

Using satellite imagery to provide wide area coverage, sometimes on a country-wide scale, D-CAT offers a range of services which enable regular, time-based or snapshot views of environmental impact. These include:

• Coastal habitat monitoring of seagrasses
• Oil slick detection and monitoring
• Detection and monitoring of burning and burned areas
• Land use monitoring and change mapping
• Land surface temperature mapping and monitoring
• Deforestation and replanting assessment
• Land subsidence and movement mapping
• Flood risk and damage assessment