Space-related service for forest management and monitoring 

The IoTrees service uses different sensors to measure key parameters in forest areas in regular basis, with no need of human intervention, and to send this information via wireless communication to a central platform. The project aims to develop a durable smart low-cost dendrometer to measure the tree diameter and send the measurement information seamless to the Forest HQ platform where the user can interact with the forest data to estimate the forest growth and monitor crop health. This solution will reduce the cost of data collection and will result in more frequent forest measurements improving the sustainable monitoring of forest resources. The primary target users for the IoTrees solution are forest managers and forest owners. The service makes use of satellite communication systems in order to provide access to the data regardless of the location of the forest measurement plots. Moreover, the measured trees will be geo-localised ensuring that satellite and drone monitoring imagery can be coupled. This will result in improved micro and macro level analysis of the forest.