Data & the Three Pillars of Sustainable Forestry

Written by Wood Campus

Jul 7, 2023

Industry | News

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According to Rolf Schmitz, co-founder and co-CEO of CollectiveCrunch and the creator of Linda Forest software solutions, digitising the world’s forests is essential to understanding and fighting climate change.

If a tree falls in the forest, it hardly matters if it makes a sound, but it helps to know it happened. Through advanced data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI), companies that manage forest inventories or produce wood-based products can better estimate these rich resources. Increasingly, our climate depends on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You’ve heard that the world’s forests are critical to fighting climate change, based in part on their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas threatening our planet. But that’s just part of the story. Trees aren’t just for reducing carbon emissions; they are renewable resources and sustain biodiversity. Understanding more precisely how forests develop, regenerate, and are harvested is key to the planet’s sustainability.

Forests cover around 30% of our planet. In order to manage our forests for a more sustainable future, we need insights into the planet’s forests at scale. This calls for digitising these vast, analog spaces.

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