Reforestation and land restoration
Plant the slope nobody can walk
Terrain mapping, seed pod broadcast onto ground machines cannot reach, and establishment counts that prove it worked.
Sites of 1 to 500 hectares, including terrain with no vehicle access.
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What actually goes wrong
Restoration work happens on exactly the ground that is hardest to work: steep slopes, burnt or storm damaged stands, wet ground and sites with no access track. Hand planting is slow and dangerous there. And once seed is in, the follow-up question, whether anything actually established, is usually answered by a walk over a small sample and a hopeful extrapolation.
How we set it up
A terrain survey first, so the planting plan follows slope, aspect and drainage rather than a shape on a map. Seed pods are broadcast at a controlled rate over the areas machines cannot reach. Establishment flights at fixed intervals count what came up, and the gaps become the next broadcast's target area.
The flight calendar across a season
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Terrain model, slope and aspect analysis, and the planting plan.
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Seed pod application at the planned rate, with an as-applied coverage map.
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First establishment count and the gap map.
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Survival count and the target area for the follow-up broadcast.
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Annual canopy development tracking against the restoration plan.
Capabilities in play, in order of how much they carry
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Drone seeding
Sow where the drill cannot go
Drones broadcast seed and seed pods onto ground that is too steep, too wet or too awkward for a machine.
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Automated field mapping
The base layer everything else sits on
One flight produces a high resolution 3D model of the field: elevation, drainage lines, headlands and problem ground.
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Yield forecasting
Count what is actually out there
Drones count plants, fruit or ears and turn the counts into a yield estimate for each part of the field.
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Sustainability reporting
The paperwork writes itself from the flights
Flight data, weather, soil and machine records combine into the input and water figures your buyers and schemes ask for.
What you end up with
Recorded on your fields, flight by flight. Not a projection.
- Planting planned against measured slope, aspect and drainage
- As-applied coverage recorded for every broadcast
- Establishment and survival counted at fixed intervals
- Follow-up broadcasts targeted at mapped gaps
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