Count every seedling in the block before the stocking report is due.
Reforestation Monitor flies your replanted block once a year and counts the seedlings from the imagery. You get the stocking for the whole block and a map of where the gaps are, in time to call beat-up planting under the contract.
Schematic, not a delivered map.
- GSD
- Under 10 cm
- Cadence
- Annual
- Platform
- Drone or crewed aircraft
- Spectral
- RGB
The plots say fine. The inspector disagrees.
The stocking report is due and the contract sets a target density for the block. So a crew walks sample plots laid across it, counts the live seedlings in each one and works the tally up to a figure for the whole block. For a block that planted evenly, that is a reasonable method.
Where a run of the planting went wrong in one corner, the plots can miss it. You find out when the client's inspector walks the block, or when the report comes back short and nobody can say where the beat-up plants should go.
The same stocking check, done two ways
| Step | Sample plots | With Reforestation Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| 01Choosing what to check | Plots are laid out across the block and the crew walks to each one. | The whole block is flown in one pass. There are no plots to choose, so nothing depends on where they landed. |
| 02Counting the stock | Live seedlings are counted inside each plot and the tally is scaled up to the block. | Every seedling the imagery shows is counted, and the block figure is that count against your target density. |
| 03Finding the gaps | The plots tell you the block is short. They rarely tell you which corner. | A gap map marks the ground where seedlings are missing against target density. |
| 04Ordering beat-up | Without a gap map, the order covers the block as a whole or rests on a guess at where the shortfall sits. | A beat-up trigger list names the blocks below target, with their gaps, so the infill order follows the map. |
| Still yoursWhether the contract obliges you to beat up, and who pays for it. | ||
| 05Writing the stocking report | Plot sheets, tallies and the scaling-up get typed into the report by hand. | A stocking report export comes out of the count, laid out to file against the contract. |
| Still yoursSigning it and sending it to the client. | ||
| 06Saying why a seedling is missing | A crew on the ground can see a browsed, dried-out or never-planted stem. | The count shows where a seedling is present and where it is not. It gives no cause. |
| Still yoursJudging cause, and what it means for the contract. | ||
What comes back for each block
One set per block, per annual flight.
- CSV
Seedling count
The number of seedlings found in each block, set against the target density you gave us. It is the figure you would put in the stocking report.
Row 02: Counting the stock - GeoPackage
Gap map
Your block boundary with the gaps drawn in, where seedlings are missing against target density. GIS software can open it, and it is what the beat-up crew can work from.
Row 03: Finding the gaps - CSV
Beat-up trigger list
The blocks that fall below target, each with the size of its shortfall, in the order you would plan infill planting.
Row 04: Ordering beat-up - PDF
Stocking report export
The count, the target, the gaps and the flight date for each block, laid out to file against the planting contract.
Row 05: Writing the stocking report
From planting to the report date
You send the block once. The flight happens once a year, ahead of your reporting date.
- After planting
Send the block and the target
A boundary file for each block and the target density the contract sets for it, in stems per hectare.
- Before the report is due
Agree the flight window
We settle a window that falls after the seedlings are established enough to show and before your reporting date.
- Once a year
The block is flown
A drone or crewed aircraft flies the block in daylight and workable weather. A poor-weather week moves the flight.
- After the flight
Seedlings counted, gaps mapped
Each seedling in the imagery is counted and the ground short of target density is marked as a gap.
- Before the report date
Files delivered
The count, gap map, trigger list and stocking report export for each block. Beat-up planting and the report itself stay with you.
What walking the plots still does better
Read these before you put a contract figure on the count.
Small seedlings can be missed
The imagery is finer than 10 cm a pixel, and a very young seedling, or one under grass, bracken or brash, may be too small or too hidden to show. The count reflects what the imagery can see. A crew standing in the plot sees more.
Presence, not cause
The count says a seedling is there or it is not. It does not say whether the stem died, was browsed, or was never planted. That call stays with you.
One flight a year
The product is built around one annual pass. It is not a way to re-check a block several times in a season.
Weather and daylight
It is an optical flight. Low cloud, rain or poor light can push it back, and the count can only be as late as the weather allows.
Not a survival guarantee
The count is a count. We do not promise a survival figure, and the pilot does not change what your contract requires. Check what method the client will accept before you rely on the count alone.
Switch if
- You are a planting contractor who owes a stocking report against a planting contract and want to see the whole block before the client's inspector does.
- You run a restoration fund and want a count across the blocks you have paid for, not a sample from each.
Stick with walked plots if
- Your contract names the sampling method and the client will not accept a count.
- You need cause of loss, species, height or health of the stock.
- You need to check a block several times in one season.
Before you switch
Does this replace the walked plots?
It can, where the client will take a count in place of a sample. Some contracts name the method. Read yours first, and keep the plots for any block where it does.
How do we check it against our own counts?
Keep a few of your usual plots on the pilot block and compare them with the count for the same ground. If they disagree, send it back and we will go through that flight's imagery with you.
Will it tell us why seedlings are missing?
No. It shows where seedlings are present and where they are not. Mortality and planting misses look the same in the imagery.
How young can a seedling be and still be counted?
It depends on its size when the block is flown and on what grows around it. Very small or well-hidden stems may not show. Plan the flight for after the seedlings have established.
Who flies the block?
We arrange the drone or crewed-aircraft flight. You send the boundary and the target density.
Will it fit our GIS and the contract file?
You get a GeoPackage for the gap map, CSV for the count and trigger list, and a PDF stocking report. There is no direct integration with your systems.
Who owns the imagery and the counts?
Your boundary and target stay yours. What you can do with the imagery, the count and the maps is written into the pilot agreement before the flight.
How is it priced?
It depends on the size of the blocks and how many you want flown, so we quote after we have seen them. There is no price list on this page.
Start with one block.
Send a boundary and the target density from your planting contract. We will scope a pilot flight around your reporting date.