Forest Inventories Overview - CollectiveCrunch

Linda Forest Management

Your forest inventories are the basis of all decision-making
You need to base your inventories on data that is refreshed only every 5 to 10 years , like LiDAR scans or manual samples
Between these refreshes as the data ages you inventories get less and less accurate
You wonder when to thin out the inventories to maximise growth
You wonder when to harvest to optimise your return
In the case of nature-based solution projects, your investors would like to get updates of your carbon stock much more frequent than in a 5-10 years cycle

We provide you with annual inventory updates with verified accuracy on a stand-level as well as on a grid of 20×20 meter or smaller
Our inventories give you a breakdown of species by volume, tree height, diameter, stem count and basal area
We provide you with recommendations for thinning and harvests, including yields per species and assortment class (saw versus pulp wood)
We provide you with carbon stocks on a stand and cell level, so you have a clear and verified view of how much carbon your forests have sequestered
You can access our solution through our web interface or we provide you with the data as a layer in your GIS solution

Climate change is having a severe impact on your forests, but you do not know where the risks are and have no means to be proactive to limit the impact
Bark beetle outbreaks, driven by dried summers and warmer winters, are exponentially larger than historic norms, putting your forests at risk of severe losses
When bark beetle outbreaks are visible to the human eye it is too late: bark beetles will at that stage have caused severe damage and have spread far and wide
Responding to an outbreak late causes significant disruption and cost, while still leaving massive economic and natural damage
You have no means to respond early to outbreaks and to address risks proactively

We provide you with bark beetle analytics updated three times during the season
Our updates point to risks in your forests in a 20 x 20 meter grid
This enables you to respond rapidly where risks emerge and also responds to reduced risks in case the outbreak vanishes
To also enables your strategic planning in that you can point winter harvests at areas where bark beetles are present and will become a risk in the next season

You want to manage your forests responsibly and ensure that your forests are resilient to climate change, but you have no means to address this
You don’t know the state of your forest biodiversity at all, where there are problems or opportunities to build on existing biodiversity
You understand that there is a solid scientific basis for assessing forest biodiversity, but you don’t know how to apply the science science
You can’t move towards a forest management that takes resilience and biodiversity into account, because you lack the practical tools

We provide you with a forest biodiversity tracker that shows you on a grid of 20 x 20 meters what level of biodiversity your forests have
We partner with forestry experts to suggest forest management plans that improve your forest biodiversity
Our analytics solution tracks how your biodiversity plan moves forward and if the objectives set out in the plan are met