ImageTree raises $4.5M for sophisticated forestry monitoring
In a capitalist society, everything has a monetary value — including the forests. However, determining a forest’s worth entails guesswork. ImageTree has produced software that asses both the economic and the environmental value of forests.
Where traditional forest surveying extrapolates from measuring a tiny sample of trees in any given forest, ImageTree uses aerial infra-red and LIDAR (like radar, but using light) measurement to figure out the size, age and species of every visible tree.
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