
Description: Arbonaut is a Finnish technology company providing high-tech forest intelligence, specializing in LiDAR-based inventory, AI-driven forest management, and precision forestry solutions. They enable digital forestry, allowing clients to manage resources, evaluate carbon/biodiversity, plan operations, and map wildfire risks through GIS web/mobile applications and data-driven insights.
Key Areas of Operation:
Forest Ecosystem Inventories: Uses LiDAR, airborne imagery, and AI to deliver micro-stand or individual tree-level inventories. They provide data on timber volume, species, height, diameter, and health to facilitate remote fieldwork.
Forest Resilience & Carbon: Assesses forest growth, health, and deadwood, aiding in identifying bark beetle infestations and monitoring biodiversity.
Forest Operations Management: Offers tools for logistics, work site planning, and forest road maintenance to reduce costs and increase productivity.
Software Solutions: Develops ArboGIS and Taaka applications, which are custom software applications for managing forest data, and aids in disaster management, such as wildfire mitigation.
Sustainability and GIS: Supports sustainable forest management to meet climate (SDG 13) and biodiversity (SDG 15) goals using geospatial intelligence
Category: Forest Modelling, Planning & Decision Support
FWPA RD&E: 4.1
| Company | Country | Type | Website | Available in Australia? | Year | Status | Remarks | TRL | Employees | Colour | Inventors | Patent Model. |
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| Arbonaut | Finland | Company | Link | yes | MW Group is majority owner since 2022 | Orange |