The Digital Forester

Anton Holmström - Katam Technologies

Kevin Lim — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:24:32 GMT

Join Kevin Lim and Anton Holmström as they explore the transformative power of technology in forestry, from drones and AI to global trends and sustainability initiatives. Discover how Katam Technologies is revolutionizing forest management across the world.

Key Topics

The evolution of forestry technology and digitalization
The role of AI and video analysis in forest measurement
Global trends in forestry and digital transformation
Challenges and opportunities in tropical forestry
Katam Technologies' impact and future roadmap

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the Conversation

01:16 Understanding Katam Technologies

05:51 The Role of Psychology in Technology Adoption

10:48 Forestry Landscape in Indonesia

18:31 The Need for Modernization in Forestry

22:34 Katam's Innovative Solutions for Forestry

29:17 Data Integrity in Forestry Operations

31:24 Challenges in Data Collection and Analysis

33:34 Cost Reduction vs. Volume Increase in Forestry

35:16 Transparency and Traceability in Data

38:28 The Importance of Historical Data

39:11 Pricing Models and Value Proposition

40:21 Global Expansion and Market Insights

43:14 Drivers of Adoption in New Markets

46:29 Emerging Trends in Forestry Technology

52:14 Diversifying Forestry Revenue Streams

53:31 The Mission Behind Katam Technologies

56:48 Future Vision for Forestry Management

Dr. Amir Soleimani - TreeTrack

Kevin Lim — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:53:52 GMT

In this episode, Dr. Amir Soleimani, CEO and co-founder of TreeTrack, shares insights into innovative land restoration technology, the impact of wildfires, and the future of forestry. Discover how drone technology, seed pods, and AI are transforming ecological restoration efforts worldwide.

Key Topics

- TreeTrack's end-to-end ecosystem restoration model
- The science and technology behind proprietary seed pods
- The role of AI, GIS, and satellite monitoring in reforestation
- Challenges and opportunities in wildfire-affected land restoration
- Building trust with large institutional partners and First Nations

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Setup
03:03 Overview of TreeTrack and Its Mission
03:54 Technology and Forestry Challenges
03:58 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest
04:57 Technical Difficulties and Audio Setup
05:21 Overview of TreeTrack and Its Mission
05:23 Introduction to Dr. Amir Soleimani and TreeTrack
10:47 The Journey to TreeTrack: Amir's Background
16:21 TreeTrack's Mission: End-to-End Land Restoration
20:04 Innovative Seed Pod Technology
26:03 Addressing Wildfire Challenges with Technology
30:17 Integrating AI and Data for Restoration
36:21 Partnerships and Community Engagement
39:30 Building Trust with Institutional Partners
42:22 The Role of Accelerators in Startup Success
46:57 Vision for the Future: Ecosystem Transformation
49:03 Memorable Experiences in Nature
50:49 Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Carlos Albuquerque - INFLOR

Kevin Lim — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:06:10 GMT

In this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Carlos Albuquerque, CEO of INFLOR, discussing his journey from computer science to forestry, the unique aspects of Brazilian forestry, and the evolution of INFLOR as a leading forest management system. They explore the integration of technology in forestry, the challenges of workforce shortages, and the future of the industry, including the impact of AI and automation. Carlos emphasizes the importance of collaboration and creating an ecosystem for innovation in forest management.

Takeaways

- Carlos has a background in computer science and joined INFLOR in 2008.
- Brazilian forestry focuses on short cycle forests, primarily eucalyptus.
- INFLOR was created to manage the entire forest chain from planting to delivery.
- The company has grown to about 120 employees, primarily in Brazil.
- Technology has evolved significantly in forestry, improving efficiency and data management.
- AI is underutilized in forestry, with potential for greater application.
- The integration of ERP systems is crucial for effective forest management.
- INFLOR offers a modular approach to its forest management system.
- Workforce challenges exist in Brazil, similar to other regions.
- Company culture at INFLOR emphasizes employee well-being and collaboration.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Carlos Albuquerque and INFLOR
03:39 Carlos's Journey into Forestry
07:53 Understanding Brazilian Forestry
10:54 The Evolution of INFLOR
14:21 Global Perspectives on Forest Management Systems
17:01 INFLOR's Growth and Workforce
18:15 Key Moments in Forestry Technology
22:46 The Role of Technology in Brazilian Forestry
24:23 Integrating ERP with Forest Management
27:09 Modular Approach to Forest Management
29:40 Talent and Workforce Challenges in Forestry
31:39 Company Culture at INFLOR
34:53 Looking Ahead: The Future of Forestry
35:22 Impact of Global Politics on Brazilian Forestry
37:48 Artificial Intelligence in Forestry
41:12 The Future of Automation in Forestry
49:50 Advice for the Next Generation of Foresters

Derrick Emsley - veritree

Kevin Lim — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:00:00 GMT

In this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Derrick Emsley, CEO of veritree and co-founder of tentree. They discuss Derrick's entrepreneurial journey, the founding of tentree, and the transition to veritree, a technology platform designed to enhance reforestation efforts. Derrick shares insights into the challenges of verifying tree planting projects and the innovative technology veritree employs, including geospatial analysis and blockchain for transparency. The discussion highlights the importance of trust in environmental initiatives and the potential for technology to drive impactful change in sustainability. In this conversation, Derrick Emsley discusses the challenges and opportunities in the reforestation sector, particularly focusing on verification standards and the importance of transparency. He highlights successful projects in Kenya and Canada, emphasizing the impact of partnerships. Derrick also shares insights on the role of AI in enhancing reforestation efforts and the significance of understanding the core problems in the industry. He concludes with advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, stressing the importance of being problem-focused rather than solution-obsessed.

Takeaways

- Derrick Emsley started his entrepreneurial journey at a young age.
- tentree was created to connect consumers with tree planting initiatives.
- veritree emerged from the need for better verification in reforestation.
- Technology plays a crucial role in monitoring and verifying tree planting.
- Blockchain can enhance trust in environmental projects.
- Derrick's background in Saskatchewan influenced his work ethic and values.
- The importance of community support in entrepreneurship.
- veritree's technology connects funders with restoration projects.
- The role of geospatial technology in project design and implementation.
- Trust is essential for the success of digital environmental products. Verification standards can create challenges in reforestation.
- Transparency is key to overcoming verification issues.
- Successful partnerships can lead to significant impact.
- Traveling to project sites enhances understanding and motivation.
- Diverse reforestation initiatives include mangroves and agroforestry.
- AI can streamline workflows and improve data insights.
- Setting ambitious goals can drive team motivation.
- Quality of tree planting is as important as quantity.
- Understanding the problem is crucial for entrepreneurs.
- Real-world experience is essential for identifying industry challenges.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to veritree and tentree
02:56 Derrick Emsley's Early Journey and Entrepreneurial Roots
06:06 The Genesis of tentree and Its Impact
09:11 Transitioning to veritree: The Need for Technology
12:01 Building Technology for Reforestation
15:00 Understanding veritree's Technology and Applications
17:52 Customer Engagement and Project Implementation
21:09 The Role of Blockchain in veritree
24:02 Future of Reforestation and Technology
27:52 Navigating Verification Challenges in Reforestation
33:00 Highlighting Successful Projects and Partnerships
38:05 The Impact of Travel on Project Insights
40:55 Exploring Diverse Reforestation Initiatives
45:03 The Role of AI in Enhancing Reforestation Efforts
48:45 Scaling Goals: Challenges and Opportunities
51:57 Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Andrew Davis - Visual Forester

Kevin Lim — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:36:25 GMT

Andrew Davis is the Product Manager for Visual Forester and joins us from Bend, Oregon, USA. In his role, he helps natural resource professionals connect with stakeholders through digital twins of forests and the creation of immersive visualizations from their existing data. Come have a listen to learn how Stand Designer and Visual Forester Pro save people time and headaches by ensuring everyone sees the same picture beyond the data and charts.

Donn Downey - Forest Metrix

Kevin Lim — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:03:42 GMT

Donn is a consulting forester, frequent speaker at forestry workshops and conferences, and developer of the Forest Metrix timber cruising software. Forest Metrix sprang from the woods of central Vermont with its development driven by foresters and the forest industry. Forest Metrix is deployed with state agencies, some of the largest TIMOs and forest and arboriculture service companies, log buyers, and countless consulting foresters, arborists and ecological professionals. Come have a listen to Donn’s journey as a forester and entrepreneur, and his passion for solving problems and helping others.

Preston Green - Miller Timber Services

Kevin Lim — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:21:57 GMT

Preston Green is the Assistant Vice President of cut-to-length (CTL) Systems at Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Oregon, USA where he responsible for harvesting management on a select number of harvesting teams, research and development of CTL innovations, and production analytics across a fleet of CTL equipment.

Dr. Matt Russell - Arbor Custom Analytics

Kevin Lim — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:15:28 GMT

Dr. Matt Russell is the President & CEO of Arbor Custom Analytics and offers data and analytics consulting services to forestry companies and organizations. With experience in forestry and analytics research, teaching, and outreach, and having authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles focusing on applied forestry research, come have a listen on Matt’s thoughts on multiple topics ranging from carbon to blockchain technology.

Max Nova - NCX (FKA SilviaTerra)

Kevin Lim — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:52:30 GMT

Max Nova, COO of NCX (FKA SilviaTerra), shares with us how he met Zach Parisa, CEO of NCX, at the Yale School of Forestry and how that friendship and collaboration would lead to the development of the Plot Hound and CruiseBoost technology, the first ever high resolution forest map of the contiguous United States (powered by Microsoft AI for Earth), and the decision to raise Seed and Series A funding to pivot and focus on their vision of a natural capital exchange where forests are valued not only for timber but their ecosystem services as well. Max reminds us that there is only one forest carbon project and it is called Planet Earth.

Markus Drugge and Jacob Hjalmarsson - Arboair

Kevin Lim — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:18:57 GMT

Markus Drugge (CEO) and Jacob Hjalmarsson (COO) of Arboair join us on this podcast. Many forest owners today lack forest data at a detailed level. At the same time, forest management could be conducted both more profitably and sustainably if we had high-quality digital decision-making data for the prevailing state of the forest. Come have a listen to learn how Arboair uses AI-driven image analysis to produce sharp decision-making data for forest owners.

Steven Hawkes - LandVest

Kevin Lim — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:47:13 GMT

Steven Hawkes is the Vice President of Forest Resources at LandVest and joins us from Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Steven has been responsible for the oversight of a team of highly qualified foresters, GIS technicians, and administrative staff who provide a full suite of professional forest management services on over 2,000,000 acres of privately-held timberland across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. Come have a listen on a broad range of topics from technology to innovation to people from one of the leaders in the forest industry.

Simon Ackerman - Stellenbosch University

Kevin Lim — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:56:10 GMT

Joining us from South Africa, in between writing his Ph.D. thesis, Simon Ackerman, CTO of Forest Operations Research at Stellenbosch University, shares with us his knowledge and experiences as it relates to improving the productivity and performance of cut-to-length (CTL) forest machinery for operational efficiency gains. The importance of training and having a skilled workforce to operate forest machinery is highlighted, as well as the shift towards more automation.

Andre Cheung - Robotics Cats and Mike Ross and Rob Vernon - Indicium Dynamics

Kevin Lim — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:24:25 GMT

Andre Cheung is the Founder and CEO of Robotics Cats and joins us from Hong Kong with Mike Ross and Rob Vernon, Founder and CTO, and CEO, respectively, of Indicium Dynamics from Tasmania. Robotics Cats is a machine vision startup comprised of a team of talented engineers with diverse cultures focused on computer vision, AI, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Indicium Dynamics is a full-service IoT and data integration solutions provider. Their low-code and affordable IoT solutions provide control over the collection, analysis, and display of data, optimising processes across a wide range of industries and organisations. Come have a listen about how Robotics Cats and Indicium Dynamics are collaborating on the XPRIZE Wildfire challenge.

Taylor Griffith - TRACT

Kevin Lim — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:46:54 GMT

Taylor Griffith, Founder of TRACT, joins us from Athens, Georgia, USA to talk about how he leveraged his background in financial technologies to develop an all-in-one forestry procurement, accounting, and logistics solution for the forest industry. By streamlining data and processes TRACT gives employees additional hours, days, and weeks every year to work smarter not harder, which means more productivity, efficiency, and value for a forest business. Come listen to Taylor talk about his journey in entrepreneurship and innovation in forestry, and vision for the forest industry.

Adam Dick - Canadian Wood Fibre Centre

Kevin Lim — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:02:38 GMT

Adam Dick is a Science Advisor at the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service and joins us from Fredericton. Adam was one of the champions that brought lidar enhanced forest inventory (EFI) to New Brunswick, which has resulted in the province having wall-to-wall lidar coverage and EFI predictions. From academia, to industry, to provincial and federal government roles, Adam shares his thoughts on his current research focus on digital supply chains in forestry and the opportunities that lie ahead of us. Adam exemplifies how the profile of a forester has evolved to include more digital skills.

Scot McQueen - Forest Stewardship Council

Kevin Lim — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:08:36 GMT

Scot McQueen, Senior Technology Officer at the Forest Stewardship Council, joins us from Olympia, Washington to share with us how he is leveraging technology to drive positive and impactful change in forestry around the world. What does Esri, Planet, Tableau, DocuSign, Amazon Web Services, and Google all have in common? They are part of the FSC Technology Consortium and working together to solve some of the toughest problems in forestry. As an example, come listen to Scot describe how FSC is tackling the chain of custody problem through blockchain technology. You’re in for some goosebumps with this one!

Doug Jones - Remsoft

Kevin Lim — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:55:39 GMT

Doug Jones, Senior Vice President of Remsoft, joins us from Fredericton, NB to kick off Season 2 of the Digital Forester podcast. Doug shares his thoughts on digital transformation, precision forestry, connected digital supply chains, data standardization and interoperability, analytics and AI, the cloud, and of course, optimization technologies. Come listen to why Doug says that we are in the middle of a forestry revolution.

Cam Brown - Forsite

Kevin Lim — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:00:18 GMT

Cam Brown is the Strategic Planning Forester at Forsite, which is a full-service forest management company that employs over 150 people from Halifax to Vancouver Island. He joins us to talk about their individual tree lidar forest inventory technology, the concept of a hybridized lidar forest inventory, cloud computing in AWS, and their innovative forestry software tools and solutions. Come listen to Cam share his thoughts on why he thinks we’ll know where every stick is at every point in time in the not-so-distant future.

Mark Books - LandMark Spatial Solutions

Kevin Lim — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:42:59 GMT

Mark Books is the Geospatial Services Manager at LandMark Spatial Solutions. Mark is a Certified Forester of the geospatial variety and has applied these skills for over 25 years to research and forest management, including prescribed burning. He brings his experience to assist fellow foresters and natural resource managers in using geospatial technology to enhance their work. Further desiring to set up forestry and foresters for success, Mark has also been an executive volunteer in his role as President and Co-founder of the Esri Forestry Group since 2008.

Alicia Sullivan - Google

Kevin Lim — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:52:52 GMT

Alicia Sullivan is the Product Manager for Google’s Earth Engine Sustainability Solutions and joins us from the greater Seattle area. She obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Forest Resources Management from the University of Washington and started her forestry career at the Washington Department of Natural Resources and Weyerhaeuser. Her interest in program and product management led her to roles with Microsoft, Amazon, CARMERA and Google. Come have a listen to Alicia’s career journey from forestry to high tech and their overlap with climate and environment.

Dr. Kerry Halligan - Woodland Solutions Group

Kevin Lim — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:06:39 GMT

Dr. Kerry Halligan is the GM of Technology at the Woodland Solutions Group. Kerry is a software developer with a background in forestry and a passion for combining the best in mobile, web and geospatial technology to solve complex data collection, management and analysis challenges. He is the lead architect and developer for Woodland Solutions Group’s MobileMap, InventoryManager, Spatial CMS framework, and the US Forest Service Digital Mobile Sketch Map application.

Brendan Moore - The Lyme Timber Company

Kevin Lim — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:07:34 GMT

Brendan Moore is a Project Manager at The Lyme Timber Company, a private timberland investment organization founded in 1976, and joins us from Vermont, USA. He shares with us why folks with the most challenging forests are the ones adopting technology the fastest and how that translates into Lyme acquiring over 700,000 acres of lidar data and adoption of earth observation for change detection. Come listen to Brendan explain why despite all the great forest technology available to foresters today, it still comes down to the people and the importance of appreciating and recognizing those working for you. The value of spending time with the field foresters who will be ultimately using the new data and tools cannot be overstated.

Levi Farrand - Deep Forestry

Kevin Lim — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:40:26 GMT

Levi Farrand, CEO of Deep Forestry, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from adventure guide and naval diver in Australia to leading a cutting-edge forest tech company in Sweden.

Deep Forestry is pioneering fully autonomous LiDAR-equipped drones that can fly beneath the forest canopy, creating highly detailed digital twins of forests for inventory, planning, and carbon projects.

Levi takes us through the early startup days—bootstrapping with his co-founder, recruiting his first engineer from a rock-climbing gym, and proving that their system could map every tree in a stand with accuracy rivaling or surpassing traditional field methods. We dive into the challenges of scaling AI-driven forest mapping, the future of sub-canopy drones in commercial and conservation forestry, and why Levi believes democratizing access to this technology will transform decision-making in forests around the world.

If you care about data-driven forestry, carbon transparency, and the future of forest management, this episode is a must-listen.

Topics Covered:

Levi’s journey from adventure guide and naval diver to tech founder
Building Deep Forestry from a startup idea to a global solution
The role of autonomous LiDAR drones in creating digital twins of forests
Startup challenges: bootstrapping, networks, and early adopters
Precision and accuracy in sub-canopy forest measurements
Applications for inventory, carbon markets, and time-series monitoring
Pricing models and the shift from hardware to service-based delivery
Scaling innovation: batteries, lighter LiDAR, and AI pipelines
Opportunities in diverse forests vs. monocultures
Levi’s vision for democratizing access to affordable forest mapping tools

Phil Green - First Resource Management Group

Kevin Lim — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 05:00:17 GMT

With 25 years of experience in forestry, Phil Green from First Resource Management Group (FRMG) talks to us about his company’s role in managing eight million hectares of public forests and how those experiences led to the development of the SkyForest forest inventory and FireFringe fire-mapping technology. The need for more investment in forest technology in Canada is touched on as well as the importance of whole-planet monitoring using earth observation (EO) as people’s concern with climate change grows. Who knows, maybe EO data products will evolve to become non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that leverage blockchain technology in the Web 3.0 future.

Rod Poirier - JRP Solutions Ltd.

Kevin Lim — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:36:36 GMT

Rod Poirier is the Owner of JRP Solutions Ltd. and joins us from Courtenay, BC. As a Canadian owned and operated company that has been in business since 1992 and managed by forest professionals and software engineers, JRP Solutions currently serves customers across North America and Australia with its Plant Wizard, Forest OPS and SNAP! software solutions. Come have a listen about Rod’s career in forestry and what it took to develop these industry-leading software solutions.

George Banzhaf - TreeTracker

Kevin Lim — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:53:25 GMT

George M. Banzhaf is the CEO and co-founder of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing corporate inventory programs, field data gathering, R&D, reforestation and seedling genetics, drone and imagery, silvicultural operations, and GIS mapping. Envisioning a better way for technology to be used to improve information, communication, and collaboration, TreeTracker was developed as a platform (online and in-the-field app) that everyone – no matter their sector of industry or size – could use to organize, develop, and share their data for increased functionality, efficiency, and success. Come learn more about TreeTracker’s mission to provide the highest quality information management system available to every sector of the forest community.

Jens Fuglsang Røge - HD LogSystems

Kevin Lim — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:26:34 GMT

Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service company HedeDanmark a/s, whose history can be traced back to 1866. According to Jens, measuring wood should be easy and that is why HD LogSystems has focused on developing and selling wood measurement solutions, including LogStackLIDAR and LogStackPRO. Come have a listen on how photographed cells from biopsies through a microscope to automate the detection of round cells led to the HD LogSystems’ first innovation.

Dr. John Lindsay - Whitebox Geospatial Inc.

Kevin Lim — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:30:51 GMT

By day, Dr. John Lindsay is a geomatics professor at the University of Guelph and the rest of time, he is an entrepreneur working as co-founder of Whitebox Geospatial Inc., which is a company that develops innovative geospatial software built on open-source. Come learn more about the WhiteboxTools Open Core, which is the foundation of the Whitebox platform and comprised of over 460 open-source tools, and how it can be used to process and analyze geospatial data of all kinds.

Dr. Dale Fried - 3DEO

Kevin Lim — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:01:42 GMT

Formerly with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Dale Fried is the Founder and CEO of 3DEO Inc., which builds upon US Department of Defense investments in Geiger-mode lidar totaling well over $100M spanning more than a decade. The company’s vision is to bring the advanced capabilities of Geiger-mode lidar technology to bear on problems of interest to its commercial and government customers. Fast to 3DEO means 10-30 million 3D measurements per second and thousands of detectors working in parallel. Come listen to what “fast” means in the context of forestry.

Bruce Ripley - Manulife

Kevin Lim — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:48:18 GMT

Bruce Ripley, Project Manager with the Strategic Innovation group at Manulife (Hancock Forest Management), joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the USA to talk about his multi-decade career in forestry and forest technology. Come listen to what Bruce is doing at Manulife with airborne lidar to name one million individual trees and learn what Bruce will be up to in the fall to drive and accelerate innovation in the forestry community. Bruce reminds us that if you don’t have data, you can’t measure or quantify anything.

Alex Bilyk - Silvacom

Kevin Lim — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:08:16 GMT

Alex Bilyk is the Forest Inventory Innovation Manager at Silvacom and joins us from the company’s Thunder Bay office. In this podcast, Alex talks about the state of lidar forest inventory across Canada, how opening access to satellite data archives, such as Landsat, has allowed us to go back in time and ask some interesting questions, and importance of open data in driving innovation. Other topics discussed include the future of drones, hyperspectral remote sensing, and fusion of harvesting machine data with lidar to tighten up utilization. Come listen to what Alex means when he says that when you Google forester, you get Subaru, and why we need to change perceptions of the forestry profession.

Dr. Cassidy Rankine - Planet

Kevin Lim — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:33:33 GMT

Dr. Cassidy Rankine is the Western Canadian Account Executive at Planet and joins us from Vernon, BC to share his thoughts on the state of earth observation (EO) in forestry. With a Ph.D. in remote sensing and forest ecology and succession from the University of Alberta, Dr. Rankine was also the co-founder of a drone startup company prior to joining Planet. Come listen to hear Dr. Rankine’s thoughts on how drones have democratized remote sensing, what agile aerospace means, the importance of data fusion and harmonization, Planet’s work with sub-50cm Pelican and 400-band hyperspectral Carbon Mapper missions, and why pancakes are ever so important at Planet.

Albrecht von Ruffer - SKYLAB

Kevin Lim — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 04:07:39 GMT

Albrecht von Ruffer, CEO of SKYLAB, joins us from Hamburg, Germany. As a biologist by training and an entrepreneur with a successful exit already, Albrecht founded SKYLAB in 2017 to leverage advances that had been made in drone technology and photogrammetry software to solve day-to-day forestry problems. Since then, SKYLAB has developed a web-based SaaS platform powered by AI that can use drone- or satellite-based remotely sensed data for wall-to-wall forest inventory and monitoring. Albrecht reminds us that making stands more productive on a long-term basis is where the value lies.

Dr. Guoliang Liu - aiTree Ltd.

Kevin Lim — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:36:27 GMT

Dr. Guoliang Liu, President of aiTree Ltd., calls in from China while on a business trip to talk about his journey over the last 30 years bringing his vision of a digital forest to reality. aiTree’s Forest Simulation Optimization System (FSOS) technology uses artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing technologies to solve the complicated demand and supply problems. Come listen to learn how Dr. Liu envisions predicting the future using a digital forest that is always running.

Dr. Pete Watt - Indufor Asia Pacific

Kevin Lim — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:31:59 GMT

From New Zealand, to Laos, to the UK, to Guyana and back to New Zealand, Dr. Pete Watt, Team Leader, Resource Monitoring & Climate Change at Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd., joins us from Auckland to share his insights on how forest intelligence can be created through actionable analytics from earth observation data to routinely monitor forest and landscape environments. Come listen to how Indufor uses earth observation, Google Cloud Platform, and deep learning for resource monitoring at national scales.

Chad St.Amand - Millar Western Forest Products

Kevin Lim — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 05:00:18 GMT

Chad St.Amand from Millar Western Forest Products (MWFP) joins us to share his forestry journey from British Columbia to Ontario to Alberta, Canada and his lessons learned as an early adopter of airborne lidar, drones, enterprise GIS, and mobile technology. Other forestry companies look to MWFP to understand how they made their technology stack work, which is comprised of Oracle, Trimble Forestry LRM, Esri ArcGIS Enterprise, Survey123, and Field Maps, and Lim Geomatics’ AFRIDS and Op Tracker. Having just invested in an airborne lidar data collection for over 1 million hectares, MWFP continues to blaze the trail forward with digital transformation but also emphasizes that success is ultimately tied back to having boots on the ground.

Jason Dain - Remsoft

Kevin Lim — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:29:30 GMT

Jason Dain, Director of Product - Forest Operations at Remsoft, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from Ottawa’s outdoors to leading forestry tech innovation. Jason reflects on 25+ years in forestry and technology, from boots-on-the-ground operations to global digital transformation. We explore how forestry practices have evolved, the three seismic tech shifts that changed the industry, and why bridging the gap between people and technology is critical for success. Jason also dives into AI’s role in forestry, future visions of remote harvesting, and the puzzle he’s determined to solve before retirement.

Tune in for insights on sustainability, climate adaptation, and advice for the next generation of foresters.

Topics Covered:

Jason’s early connection to nature and the Junior Ranger program
Combining forestry and technology: from BASIC programming to Trimble Forestry to Remsoft
Evolution of forestry practices: analog to digital transformation
Three major tech shifts: land divestiture, certification, SaaS adoption
Challenges in digital adoption and overcoming resistance
AI in forestry: short, medium, and long-term use cases
Future vision: remote and autonomous harvesting
Climate change impacts and adaptive forestry practices
The ultimate puzzle: closing the feedback loop between planning and reality

Lorne Carson - Carson Integrated

Kevin Lim — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 05:30:25 GMT

Lorne Carson, President of Carson Integrated, joins us on The Digital Forester podcast to share his journey from the East Coast to building a diverse group of companies rooted in Western Canada. Lorne walks us through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship in forestry, energy, and environmental services. We talk about the state of forestry in Western Canada, challenges with wildfire and regulation, and where real innovation is happening today — including AI, exoskeletons for field crews, and even augmented reality.

Tune in to hear how Lorne's boots-on-the-ground approach, willingness to pivot, and passion for people have shaped a resilient, tech-savvy forestry business built to last.

Topics Covered:

Lorne’s path into forestry and move from the East Coast to Alberta
Starting Carson Integrated and evolving beyond traditional consulting
Building and winding down multiple businesses: safety, GIS, rentals
State of forestry in Western Canada vs. British Columbia
Entrepreneurial lessons in timing, failure, and resilience
The impact of wildfires and adapting operations in real time
Technology trends: data overload, machine learning, and AI
Using exoskeletons in forestry fieldwork
Vision for AR/VR and immersive digital forestry tools
Challenges of innovation adoption in woodlands operations
The future of Carson Integrated and Western Canadian forestry

Brandon Craft - Forest Resource Consultants

Kevin Lim — Tue, 10 May 2022 04:50:23 GMT

Brandon Craft is a Technical Services Forester at Forest Resource Consultants (FRC) and joins us from Macon, GA. Immediately after completing his master’s degree in forestry from Auburn University, Brandon launched his own forest service provider firm and built it up to a seven-person firm before deciding to join FRC to help with its digital transformation. Come listen to Brandon’s thoughts on how COVID-19 dashboards may have been a trigger event for digital transformation in organizations and the importance of geospatial strategy, change management, and executive sponsors in realizing success. While Brandon sees digital transformation well underway in many forestry companies, he reminds us that for some, it is more about digital birth as opposed to transformation.

Dr. Tuomo Kauranne - Arbonaut

Kevin Lim — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:03:18 GMT

Dr. Tuomo Kauranne is the CEO of Arbonaut, a Finnish company focused on building digital twins of forests. In 1998, Arbonaut developed the first forest inventory tools in the world capable of detecting individual trees from aerial and satellite imagery, and over its 25+ years in business, has completed over 100 forestry projects in over 30 countries. Come listen to Tuomo story tell how the company got founded and how he leverages technology for impact.

Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers - RasterMatics International

Kevin Lim — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:51:41 GMT

Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers, Principal Consultant at RasterMatics International, joins us from outside of Cape Town in South Africa. Mark gives us an overview of commercial forestry in South Africa and shares his experiences from having worked in forestry over the last 30 years. Come listen to why Mark believes that the EO space is being driven by sensors, software and connectivity, and that the key to success is to not be afraid to ask for help and never stop learning.

Andrea Feunekes - Remsoft

Kevin Lim — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:29:32 GMT

Andrea Feunekes, co-founder and former CEO of Remsoft, helps us kick off Season 5 of The Digital Forester. Andrea reflects on 30+ years of leading Remsoft, building a global business from the ground up with her husband Ugo, and shares lessons learned along the way. We dive into the evolution of forestry tech, the importance of change management, data readiness, and Remsoft’s exciting future with the recent acquisition of Lim Geomatics and platform growth. Tune in to hear why Andrea believes we’re on the edge of a connected, intelligent forestry future.

Topics Covered

The founding story of Remsoft and early challenges
Key technological shifts in forestry: GIS, optimization, AI
Defining true optimization and digital forest twins
The role of data quality and organizational readiness
Change management and adapting processes for tech
The creation of Remsoft Operations and its AI co-pilot
The acquisition of Lim Geomatics and vision for a connected supply chain
Choosing the right private equity partner with Banneker Partners
Advice for entrepreneurs and working with family
Andrea’s future view: automation, decision-making, and digital tools in forestry

Kevin Shorthouse - Northwest Solutions Inc.

Kevin Lim — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:36:42 GMT

Kevin Shorthouse is the Director of Northwest Solutions Inc. and joins us from Thunder Bay, ON. Since 2014, this Northern Ontario family-owned business has been dedicated to providing forestry, mining, and environmental services, along with expert training and communications consulting. Come learn how the company’s client-focused, results-oriented team leverages technology to provide innovative solutions to the natural resources sector.

Alex Deslauriers - FireSwarm Solutions

Kevin Lim — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:00:24 GMT

Alex Deslauriers, Co-Founder & CEO of FireSwarm Solutions, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share how his personal loss to wildfire sparked a mission to transform how we fight fires. With a background in aerospace engineering and search and rescue, Alex and his team at FireSwarm Solutions are developing heavy-lift drones, swarm intelligence, and AI-driven systems to deliver water and suppression agents faster, safer, and more effectively.

We explore Alex’s journey, the challenges of wildfire management in a changing climate, and how technology and partnerships are redefining what’s possible on the fire line.

If you care about innovation, resilience, and the future of wildfire response, this episode is a must-listen.

Topics Covered:

Alex’s background in aerospace and SAR (search and rescue)
The personal impact of the 2023 BC wildfires
Founding FireSwarm Solutions and its mission
Heavy-lift drones and swarm technology for wildfire suppression
Using AI to coordinate rapid response in high-risk conditions
The role of partnerships and collaboration in scaling innovation
Challenges of bringing aerospace tech into forestry operations
The future vision for wildfire management: speed, safety, resilience

Enda Keane - Treemetrics

Kevin Lim — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:41:29 GMT

Enda Keane, CEO of Treemetrics, pioneered the Internet of Trees (IoT) concept and was an early adopter of all things lidar, forest inventory, harvesting machine telematics, and satellite mapping technologies. Treemetrics is the developers of ForestHQ, a forest management solution, and ForestBidder, an online marketplace for forest auctions. Enda is excited about the field measurement capabilities offered through the iPhone 12, new satellites dedicated to forestry applications, and the possible use of NFTs in carbon markets.

Dr. Elizabeth Hunter - Treeswift

Kevin Lim — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:55:45 GMT

Dr. Elizabeth Hunter is the COO and Co-Founder of Treeswift, a company that has built a new data and monitoring system for the natural world by pushing the frontier in robotic and machine learning technology. Treeswift has designed high-resolution sensors which can operate underneath the forest canopy and replace traditional forest measurement tools, and when combined with drones and backpacks, can be used to cruise forests for carbon and timber.

Ben Gwilliam - Ontario Woodlot Association

Kevin Lim — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:52:59 GMT

Ben Gwilliam is a Private Land Forest Inventory Analyst with the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ben completed a Master of Forest Conservation at the University of Toronto before joining the OWA where his work focuses on developing enhanced forest inventories using lidar for private woodlot owners. Ben shares how he got started and the various tools that he has had to learn to be able to offer this service to OWA members.

Dr. Mark Corrao - Northwest Management Inc.

Kevin Lim — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:49:35 GMT

Dr. Mark Corrao is the Director of Technology at Northwest Management Inc., which is a leader in forestland and environmental management, providing expertise in forestry, technology, wildfire, water resources, wildlife, hazard management and planning. Dr. Corrao joins us from Idaho to share his journey in forestry and how it led to a Ph.D. in soil physics and environmental law, and the development of the company’s ForestView® technology. Currently, ForestView® Lidar and single-tree Digital Inventory® products cover over 4 million acres of commercial forestland within 17 States and one Canadian province.

Bruce MacArthur - Tesera Systems

Kevin Lim — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 04:29:00 GMT

Bruce MacArthur is the CEO of Tesera Systems and joins us from the foothills in between Cochrane and Calgary, Alberta. He started his career in forestry by working in sawmills at the age of 14 years old, which in turn led to the pursuit of a forestry degree at UBC. With staff in BC, Alberta, Nova Scotia and Thailand, Tesera is a remote first company and has been in business for over 24 years with clients in Canada, USA, Brazil, Europe and South Africa. Come listen to learn more about Tesera’s High Resolution Inventory Solutions (HRIS), which deploys advanced machine learning and data analytics to produce reliable forestry and natural resource inventories, and Bruce’s thoughts on open source technology, forest inventory, and climate and its impact on forest systems. Bruce reminds us that ultimately, sustainability is tied to good information.

Howard Butler - Hobu Inc.

Kevin Lim — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:59:06 GMT

In this episode of The Digital Forester, Howard Butler, President of Hobu Inc., shares his journey from agricultural roots to leading innovation in open-source geospatial software. We explore the evolution of tools like GDAL, PDAL, and Entwine, and how they're transforming forestry, especially in handling and visualizing massive point cloud datasets.

Howard explains how technologies like SilviMetric are modernizing forestry analytics and data management. He also shares thoughts on the future of lidar, cloud-optimized formats, AI, and what’s next for scalable, open geospatial systems. A must-listen for digital foresters and GIS professionals.

Topics Covered:

Howard’s path from agriculture to GIS and open-source software
Founding of Hobu Inc. and the philosophy behind open source
Key projects: GDAL, PROJ, PDAL, Entwine, and Cloud Optimized Point Clouds
How PDAL emerged with support from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Forestry applications: point cloud processing, classification, and raster generation
SilviMetric: developed with the U.S. Forest Service for forestry metric analysis
The role of cloud-native formats and scalable data access
Adoption across governments, research, and industry
AI, Gaussian splatting, and the future of 3D geospatial analysis
Advice for getting started with geospatial tools

Alex van Gelder - Clear Timber Analytics

Kevin Lim — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:19:08 GMT

Alex van Gelder is the CEO and Founder of Clear Timber Analytics and joins us from the The Netherlands. Clear Timber Analytics provides accurate tools to help foresters with their daily duties by translating modern technology, such as high-resolution drone imagery and advanced data analytics, into reports that allow foresters to precisely target resources. Come have a listen to learn more about Clear Timber Analytics’ bark beetle detection, growing stock analysis, forest disturbance analysis, and harvest data visualization solutions.

Dave Ginther - Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc.

Kevin Lim — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:27:12 GMT

Dave Ginther is the Owner of Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc. (VDTS) and joins us from Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Dave’s background is in the IT sector where for over 25 years he worked as both a general manager and consultant. Dave founded VDTS after discovering Voice Recognition as an effective tool for hands free data gathering and over the years has gained clients in forestry, lumber manufacturing, and agriculture. Come have a listen and learn about VDTS voice directed solutions for forestry.

Marko Gasic - Mosaic Forest Management

Kevin Lim — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:53:48 GMT

Marko Gasic is the Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Mosaic Forest Management and joins us from Vancouver, BC. At the time of recording, Marko was the Vice President of Information Technology and Planning at Mosaic and successfully led several major digital transformation projects for the company. Come have a listen to Marko’s thoughts from an executive level on the forest technology landscape and his leadership approach to realizing success.

Clint Graumann - NUVIEW

Kevin Lim — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:12:12 GMT

Lidar from space? Impossible, right? NUVIEW came out of stealth mode earlier this year and their mission is to revolutionize the Earth observation industry by building the premier commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using lidar technology. NUVIEW’s cutting-edge data will elevate worldwide capabilities, transforming human understanding of Earth and expanding the horizons of what is possible. Come listen to Clint Graumann, CEO of NUVIEW, talk about the future of space lidar, Mr. Spoc and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Swapan Chaudhuri - Deeplai

Kevin Lim — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:42:05 GMT

Swapan Chaudhuri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeplai and joins us from Poland. TimberID is a complete platform solving the digitalization of forest management and reporting in terms of harvested timber database creation delivering timber provenance authentication, supply chain verification and carbon footprint monitoring. Come have a listen on how TimberID technology can help forestry companies meet their European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obligations.

Alex Meyers - TimberEye

Kevin Lim — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:51:30 GMT

Alex Meyers is the COO and Co-Founder of TimberEye, a company that reimagines how logs get measured, moved, bought and sold. TimberEye log scaling technology perfectly handles hundreds of thousands of logs a month with its operating system covering every aspect of log inventory management. TimberEye scales logs 20x faster than humans within 0.3 cm of verified human scalers resulting in your team having perfect real time visibility into your operations. Come listen to Alex explain how TimberEye is a better way to interact with your supply chain.

Cakey Worthington & Zach Pardue - Anew

Kevin Lim — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:37:37 GMT

We kick off 2023 with Cakey Worthington, VP of Carbon Operations and Zach Pardue, Manager of Forest Information and Geospatial Systems from Anew. With the merger of Element Markets and Bluesource to create Anew, the company introduced "Climate as a Service” – an approach that offers companies and organizations a seamless solution to navigating the increasingly complex landscape of environmental responsibility. Since inception of its legacy companies, Anew has transacted over 150 million tonnes of carbon, has provided more than 240 million diesel gallons equivalent of renewable fuels for transportation, and has developed projects on over 3.5 million acres of forest and farmland.

Olle Gelin - AirForestry

Kevin Lim — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:00:18 GMT

Olle Gelin is the CEO and Co-Founder of AirForestry, which is a company that thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. AirForestry has developed their own electric drone and harvesting head to thin trees and fly them out to roadside from the air. Come listen to Olle describe a future where thinning operations are fossil-free and why he sees the world comprised of only possibilities.

Mike Sutton - Forestry Corporation of NSW

Kevin Lim — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 23:41:31 GMT

Mike Sutton is the Manager of Innovation & Research at the Forestry Corporation of NSW in Australia. Mike, who started his career at a time where there was only one satellite in space and where rugged data bricks that could be driven over by cars was considered high-tech, joins us to share his journey with innovation. Have a listen about his work with and thoughts about drones, airborne and UAV lidar, mobile mapping, app development, GNSS, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. Mike believes we are not too far away from working at the individual tree given all the technology that is available today.

Johan Ekenstedt - Arboreal

Kevin Lim — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:00:19 GMT

From his treehouse in Sweden, Johan Ekenstedt, Founder of Arboreal, shares with us how he leveraged the lidar and augmented reality capabilities of smartphones to provide foresters a simple way of measuring tree heights and DBH. As a startup in the app space, Johan reflects on what he had to do to get the US Army to approve Arboreal’s apps and his thoughts on the changes proposed for the Apple Apps and Google Play stores.

Frank Mastrobuono - Global Surface Intelligence

Kevin Lim — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:06:27 GMT

Frank Mastrobuono is VP Sales, North America at Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) and describes himself as an inspired business development, management, and science professional with a passion for applying technological advances to management of our natural resources. GSI is a forestry and land classification analytics company with offices in both the UK and US. The company has deep roots in environmental sciences, harnessing next generation artificial intelligence to transform satellite, LiDAR and ground survey data into commercially valuable analytics. Come learn about GSI’s new cutting-edge product ForINT.

Michael Dooner & Mike Berzinis - Southern Forestry Consultants

Kevin Lim — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:04:02 GMT

Southern Forestry Consultants president Michael Dooner and Mike Berzinis, Director of Geospatial Solutions, talk about natural resources management and digital transformation underway in forestry in the US southeast. The importance of partnerships and education are highlighted as critical to enabling a single source of truth for data-driven forestry. In this podcast, SFC shares how they use GIS and cloud technology to deliver exponentially better tools for the foresters they serve, all the while keeping things easy and simple.

Domenico Iannidinardo & Aaron Fujikawa - Strategic Natural Resource Group

Kevin Lim — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Domenico Iannidinardo, CEO, and Aaron Fujikawa, Director of Remote Sensing & Geomatics at Strategic Natural Resource Group (SNRgroup), join us on The Digital Forester podcast to share how they're navigating the future of forestry and resource management in British Columbia.

Domenico brings decades of leadership experience from the forest industry, while Aaron shares how Strategic’s tech-forward mindset is driving innovation with GIS, remote sensing, and operational analytics. Together, they break down how a boots-on-the-ground culture and Indigenous majority ownership are helping the company respond to today’s biggest forestry challenges — from wildfires to shifting tenure models.

If you’re curious about where digital forestry meets field operations, this is the episode for you.

Topics Covered:

Domenico’s transition from forest industry executive to CEO of Strategic
Aaron’s background in GIS and 15+ years leading geospatial innovation
The founding story and evolution of Strategic Natural Resource Group
Shifting BC forestry tenures and Indigenous leadership
Wildfires, spill response, and rapid deployment operations
Embracing technology: GPS, drones, LiDAR, and digital twins
Strategic Natural Resource Group's approach to building dashboards and data portals
How remote sensing and field data fuel better planning
The intersection of climate change, land management, and tech
Recruiting and retaining top talent in forestry and natural resources

Gaetan Pelletier - Northern Hardwood Research Institute

Kevin Lim — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:00:15 GMT

Gaetan Pelletier is the Executive Director of the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute in Edmundston, New Brunswick. With over 30 years of forestry experience, Gaetan reflects on some of the key technologies that have digitally transformed the forest industry. Lidar, drones, SLAM, and harvester heads are all areas of applied research that excites Gaetan and keeps him from ever considering retirement. With AI “black boxes”, Gaetan reminds us that we still need to be able to explain model outputs and there is no better way of doing that than getting out in the woods.

John Pineau - Ontario Woodlot Association

Kevin Lim — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:55:43 GMT

John Pineau is the Executive Director at the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Mattawa, Ontario. John has worked in the forest industry, led research organizations focused on driving innovation in forestry, taught as a professor at colleges, and most recently, is providing leadership with non-profit organizations. As Part 1 of a podcast series with the OWA, come have a listen about John’s journey as an innovator and community builder in the forest industry.

Dr. Nicholas Coops - UBC

Kevin Lim — Tue, 27 May 2025 02:23:07 GMT

Dr. Nicholas Coops, Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing at UBC, joins The Digital Forester podcast to talk about his journey through forestry, research, and innovation. We explore how remote sensing has evolved, its impact on forest management, and what’s next for the field. From global monitoring to cutting-edge projects, Nicholas shares insights from decades at the forefront of forest science.

Topics Covered:

- Dr. Coops’ career path and early influences in remote sensing

- The role of remote sensing in modern forestry

- Building the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio at UBC

- Shifts in satellite data, LiDAR, and forest inventory methods

- Translating academic research into operational tools

- Upcoming SilviLaser 2025 conference in Quebec City, Canada

- Challenges and opportunities in global forest monitoring

- Mentorship, leadership, and collaboration in science

- Dr. Coops’ perspective on what’s next for digital forestry

Henry Ines - Chainparency

Kevin Lim — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:39:03 GMT

Henry Ines is Co-Founder and CEO of Chainparency and joins us from Houston, Texas, USA. Chainparency is a supply chain software and data solutions company that develops turnkey and modular blockchain-based applications and digital tools that help its customers to ensure transparency, traceability and auditability in global supply chains. For the last Digital Forester podcast of 2024, come have a listen on how Chainparency’s flagship product GoTrace, the first-of-a-kind 100% turnkey SaaS blockchain-based platform that enables any enterprise or organization regardless of size to engage in end-to-end data collection and digital track & trace at scale, is being used in forestry today.

Eli Jensen - Ironwood Forestry

Kevin Lim — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:30:54 GMT

Eli Jensen is the Owner of Ironwood Forestry and joins us from Flagstaff, Arizona. Ironwood Forestry is comprised of a dedicated team of professionals with a passion for forest management and innovation with the aim of revolutionizing the forestry industry. Come have a listen on what the concept of forest architecture means to Eli and his innovation projects dealing with the development of the Mark series of sprayers and his efforts to map thousands of acres using mobile lidar.

Murray Woods - Treedimensions

Kevin Lim — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 01:28:17 GMT

Murray Woods, Principal Consultant at Treedimensions, shares his experiences with and thoughts about airborne, terrestrial and hand-held lidar, single photon lidar, lidar enhanced forest inventories, area-based vs. individual tree-based lidar inventories, best practices for field sampling for lidar inventories, whether lidar can remotely sense age and much more.

Rolf Schmitz - CollectiveCrunch

Kevin Lim — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:37:54 GMT

Rolf Schmitz is the co-CEO and co-founder of CollectiveCrunch and while normally based out of Germany, joins us from Espoo, Finland. In his words, modelling nature is incredibly complex but also fun and beautiful. CollectiveCrunch originated from the idea that it could make a difference by combining climate and geo data with state-of-the-art analytics to develop new insights. In this conversation, Rolf talks about how cut-to-length harvester data can be used to calibrate models, the importance to focus on outcomes and not the black box nature of AI, the potential of blockchain for tokenizing carbon and much more. If you want to know who is the Linda in CollectiveCrunch’s Linda Forest, Linda Scout and Linda Planet solutions, come have a listen.

Dr. Elias Ayrey - Renoster

Kevin Lim — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:39:20 GMT

Dr. Elias Ayrey, Co-Founder and Head Scientist at Renoster, joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the US to talk about how Renoster uses remote sensing to determine carbon sequestration value for forest offset projects. Come listen to learn what Renoster has to do with rhinos and what deep transparency for carbon credit projects means to them.