| Company | EyeSky |
| Website | https://www.eyesky.com.au/ |
| Category | Planning & Inventory › Remote sensing & mapping |
mapping, survival counts, health assessments, operational planning.
Aerial imagery refers to photographs or sensor data captured from airborne platforms — including satellites, manned aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — and is one of the foundational technologies in modern forestry management. In a forestry context, aerial imagery enables practitioners to map forest extent, monitor canopy health, assess biomass, detect disease or pest outbreaks, and plan harvesting operations across large and often inaccessible terrain. Modern aerial imagery systems go well beyond simple optical photography, incorporating multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal infrared, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors that reveal information invisible to the human eye. For example, multispectral imagery can detect early signs of pathogen stress in trees weeks before visible browning occurs, while thermal sensors can identify hotspots in post-harvest slash piles or detect the early spread of wildfire. In Australian forestry, aerial imagery plays a particularly critical role given the vast scale of both native and plantation forests across states such as Western Australia, Victoria, and Queensland. Organisations such as the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) use satellite and aerial imagery as part of national forest assessments, while commercial timber companies integrate high-resolution drone imagery into operational planning. The rise of cloud-based platforms — such as Google Earth Engine and ESRI's ArcGIS Imagery — has dramatically lowered the barrier to processing and analysing large aerial image datasets, enabling smaller forestry operators to access capabilities once reserved for government agencies. Advances in AI-driven image analysis, including convolutional neural networks trained on labelled canopy data, are further accelerating the extraction of actionable intelligence from aerial imagery, supporting more precise, lower-impact, and better-documented forestry operations.
Enables rapid mapping, survival counts, health monitoring. Identifies disease, and unsafe conditions earlier.
| Field | Value |
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| Company | EyeSky |
| Type | company |