Canada’s CLC-Camint is using DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery to identify individual tree crowns in forest areas. With the ability to delineate and classify tree crowns, forestry professionals will have a better methodology for generating forest inventories and managing forestry practices, potentially saving the forestry industry millions of dollars.

Over the past few years, CLC-Camint has validated and is bringing to the market the individual tree crown methodology using high-resolution space photos. This methodology was developed by Francois A. Gougeon of the Canadian Forest Service. Gougeon and CLC-Camint have worked closely over the past three years to get the most pertinent forest information out of high-resolution imagery using this methodology.