AI FOREST ANALYTICS
Smart Forest
SMART ANALYTICS FOR FORESTS
Satellites are collecting valuable data on state of the environment – both positive and negative changes caused by climate change such as increasing storms, insect damages and forest fires. We utilize satellite data and combine them with other data sources into smart data to be used for better decision making, more efficient workflows and more sustainable environment.
Bitcomp Oy has long history on providing satellite monitoring based services for large areas. Our Change Detection Service has been in production since Summer 2019 and has been used since that by Finnish Forest Centre for monitoring legality of cuttings in whole Finland.
Our AI based Smart Analytics contains following data sets:
Change detection for detecting cuttings and storm damages.
Forest health risk monitoring for detecting e.g. bark beetle damages before they spread wider.
Forest management needs by detecting too dense forests.
Forest growth and CO2.
Forest biodiversity indicators.
Need a reality check with your forest? Our intelligent satellite monitoring takes your decision making to next level.
Satellite Monitoring
AI based forest monitoring services developed by Bitcomp uses the most recent satellite data, processed in cloud automatically utilizing machine learning algorithms. Earth monitoring enables objective, quick and accurate detection of environmental changes and risk predictions relevant to your business. This allows the user to get the information faster and in a more accessible format than before. Thanks to the current, remotely acquired information it is possible to efficiently target the costly field work to where it is actually needed.
The analysis products are available as map layers or as files. They can be included both in Bitcomp’s own or 3rd party web or mobile applications via data interfaces.
AI + SATELLITE MONITORING
Freely available Sentinel data and other remote sensing data such as commercial high resolution satellite data are applied with machine learning algorithms. Monitoring runs automatically.
QUICK AND OBJECTIVE RESULTS
You’ll have automatically updated map layers that assists your everyday work. Updated results are available even weekly.
Change detection (cuttings)
Change detection (strom damages)
Forest health risks
Forest thinning needs (too dense forests)
Forest growth and CO2
AI based model for predicting future forest growth and CO2 development in trees and soil.
Result available both as stand-level maps and summarized reports.
Biodiversity indicators
Map layer showing forest biodiversity index on forest stand level.
R&D projects
Bitcomp’s AI services have been developed since 2015, starting from pilot projects with drone surveys and extending to country-level monitoring systems which we have currently in production. We have been participating to several R&D projects, such as European Space Agency (ESA) funded Envinavigator demonstration project (2020-2022) where satellite monitoring services were further developed and piloted with forest owner associations in Finland and Germany.
We are currently participating a large Eco2adapt project (EU Horizon), which aims that aims to help stakeholders manage forests to optimize social and ecological resilience. Our interest in the project is in improving AI algorithms for forest vitality and damage detection.
Customer Story
Finnish Forest Centre
The Finnish Forest Center is one of the first users of the Change Detection Service. They rolled out a national system of tracking forest logging by satellite. Authorities will be able to compare the maps it generates with logging notifications from landowners and timber owners.
How did we succeed in our mission? Watch the video!
Interested in employing change detection for your operations?
GET IN CONTACT
Sanna Härkönen
R&D Director
tel. +358 40 120 9451
email sanna.harkonen@bitcomp.fi