Industry · Canopy · fuel · terrain

Forestry

Map canopy structure, height, and wildfire fuel across entire forests — and still see the ground beneath.

Forestry point-cloud scan
The problem

What’s at stake.

Forest and fire managers need accurate canopy and terrain data over enormous areas. Single-look lidar leaves voids under dense canopy, and low-altitude collection makes regional coverage slow and expensive.

What’s required

What the data has to do.

Wide-area, high-density data that penetrates foliage to recover both canopy structure and bare-earth terrain — refreshed often enough to be useful for planning.

How 3DEO helps

From scoping to answers.

Sees under the canopy

Multi-angle agile scanning fills the gaps a nadir look misses, recovering ground returns beneath dense vegetation.

Digital defoliation

Acadia separates canopy from terrain, producing clean bare-earth DTMs alongside canopy-height models.

Wildfire fuel at scale

High-density structure data across whole forests feeds fuel-load and fire-behavior models.

Recommended system

Zion is built for this.

A compact, accessible system for high-resolution low- and mid-altitude collection.

Forestry collection
ARBORETUM · digital defoliation
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