Industry · Canopy · fuel · terrain

Forestry

Map and understand canopy structure, ladder fuels, diameter-at-breast-height, first-branch taper, all while still mapping the detailed surface underneath.

Forestry point-cloud scan — Wrangell
System: Wrangell · Altitude AGL: 6,000 ft · Area rate: 30 km² / hr · Density: 490 ppsm
The problem

What’s at stake.

Forest and fire managers need accurate canopy and terrain data over enormous areas. Single-look lidar leaves voids under dense canopy, and low-altitude collection makes regional coverage slow and expensive.

What’s required

What data has to do.

Wide-area, high-density data that penetrates foliage to recover both canopy structure and bare-earth terrain — refreshed often enough to be useful for planning.

How 3DEO helps

From scoping to answers.

Sees under the canopy

Multi-angle agile scanning fills the gaps a nadir look misses, recovering ground returns beneath dense vegetation.

Digital defoliation

Acadia separates canopy from terrain, producing clean bare-earth DTMs alongside canopy-height models.

Wildfire fuel at scale

High-density structure data across whole forests feeds fuel-load and fire-behavior models.

Recommended system

Wrangell is built for this.

A flexible, high-resolution system for collections between 5,000 to 16,000 ft.

Forestry point-cloud scan — Wrangell
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