Treeswift to automate forestry with swarms of drones

A Treeswift drone on a test run in a New Jersey forest. | Credit: Treeswift

Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s landmass, but that number is on the decline. Despite forests’ crucial role in conserving wildlife and processing carbon dioxide, many are threatened by deforestation and wildfires. Complicating these threats is the lack of quantitative information that foresters and environmental researchers need for making important decisions to preserve forests.