Ground truth where no one else can see.
Ground truth for nature
Deep Forestry is a physical-AI company in nature.

Our drones autonomously capture ground-truth data from the places satellites can’t see and crews can’t reach.

We turn it into verified intelligence that decisions about land, assets and risk depend on.
THE GAP

The data that matters most is the hardest to reach.

Hidden Assets
Aerial view of a dense, closed forest canopy that hides the trees and ground beneath it
Forests, plantations, power-line corridors and contested ground all sit under cover. You can’t see them from above or reach them by road.
Scarce Crews
Two field workers in high-visibility jackets checking a laptop beneath a power line pylon at dusk
Ground truth still means people walking plots with tapes and tablets. That work is slow, expensive, hard to staff, and only samples a tiny part of the asset.
Blind Tools
Camera drone flying above a forested valley, seeing only the top of the canopy
Drones fly above the problem. They can cover a lot of ground and what they produce has nothing on the ground to check it against.
APPLICATIONS

Nature, as data you can act on.

01
Forest inventory

Every tree measured, not estimated. Our Drones fly beneath the canopy and return diameter, height, volume and species for every stem.

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LiDAR scan of a single tree measured beneath the canopy, colour-coded from green at the trunk to red at the crown
02
Carbon & MRV

Carbon you can audit down to a single tree. Per-stem biomass gives registries, developers and verifiers a measured carbon stock. Any number can be traced back to the tree and the scan it came from.

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Top-down 3D view of a forest with one measured plot highlighted in green among grey trees
03
Vegetation & asset risk

See the risk before it reaches the line. We map the vegetation along power corridors tree by tree, so utilities can move from reactive trimming to planned, defensible management.

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3D forest point cloud with trees flagged in red next to a power line pylon
04
Mapping & navigation

Maps of the world beneath the cover. We build precise 3D maps of terrain, stands and boundaries in places satellites can’t see, giving people and machines the ground truth they need to plan and move.

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Stacked 3D map layers above a forest stand, showing terrain, canopy and features beneath the cover
05
Plantation yield

Count what grows, find what’s missing, predict what you’ll harvest. Across palm and eucalyptus estates, we turn every row into yield and survival data you can act on.

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LiDAR point cloud of a palm tree with its fronds and crown centre detected

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Deep Forestry below-canopy drone with LiDAR sensor beside a laptop showing the forest data portal
FAQ

You ask, we answer

What is Deep Forestry?

Deep Forestry is a physical-AI company in nature. Our robots autonomously capture ground truth where no satellite or person can: beneath canopies, along corridors, across cluttered and GPS-denied ground. Our own AI turns it into measured, traceable objects. Customers use it for inventory and yield, carbon and MRV, vegetation and asset risk, and mapping and navigation. Deep Forestry AB is based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Is Deep Forestry only for forests?

No. Nothing in our stack is specific to forests; forests are just the hardest place we've proved it. Today we work on forests, plantations (palm, eucalyptus), power-line corridors and contested, GPS-denied ground. Mines, cities and infrastructure are next and not yet deployed.

Who uses Deep Forestry?

Organisations whose decisions depend on ground no one can see well from above:

  • Land, forest and plantation owners and managers who need a measured inventory
  • Carbon project developers and verifiers who need numbers an auditor can trace
  • Utilities managing vegetation along power lines and other critical infrastructure
  • Satellite, earth-observation and Geo AI companies that need ground truth to calibrate their models
  • Organisations that must map and move across GPS-denied ground
How does Deep Forestry capture ground truth?

Neuron Edge™ moves a drone or backpack close to the ground, among the things that matter, scanning with LiDAR as it goes. Neuron Mind™ then finds and separates each object in the point cloud and measures it; in a forest or plantation, that means every tree's position, height, stem diameter and volume. Because we capture from inside the terrain rather than from above, we measure what top-down sensors can only estimate.

What data do I get from a survey?

Located, measured objects, plus a terrain model and a georeferenced point cloud, as files your systems can read and in an application your team can use. What's measured depends on the output you need:

  • Forests and plantations: every tree the survey sees, with position, height, diameter along the stem (measured where seen, fitted above), stem volume, density and basal area
  • Corridors: each tree's height, lean and distance to the line
  • Mapping: a georeferenced 3D map and terrain model of ground maps from above can't show
How accurate is Deep Forestry?

Accuracy depends on the terrain and what's being measured, so rather than quote one number for everything, we report how well each object was seen and keep measured and estimated values apart. Our deepest validation is in forests, where measurements have been compared tree by tree against harvester measurements in radiata pine. The best test is your own: survey a site where you have reference data and compare.

Isn't satellite or airborne data good enough?

For many decisions, top-down data is the right tool: it covers huge areas cheaply. But it sees the top and estimates what's beneath. When a decision needs what's underneath, such as volume, carbon or the exact position of an object, it needs ground truth. We don't replace satellite and airborne data; we're the layer beneath that calibrates and verifies it.

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Any terrain. One stack. The ground truth you're missing.