Aerial Hotshots | Forest Plantation Aerial Survey

Forest Plantation Aerial Survey

Aerial HotShots Pty Ltd has formed a working relationship with Outline Imagery™ that uses precision navigated four band digital airborne sensors. The result is the rapid delivery of GIS ready, full colour and near-infrared ortho-mosaics, used across a wide range of land management applications.

Outline Imagery™ Forestry Applications:

Forestry

Outline Imagery™is an essential tool for the plantation forest manager. Management efficiency and informed decision making can be maximized in these key areas of mapping, crop damage and inventory:

Plantation management unit mapping to GIS
Drought, snow and fire damage assessment and quantification
Early crop stress detection to individual tree level
Tree stem inventory as well as tree species and age differentiation

FORESTRY EXAMPLE: Aerial Fire Damage Survey

The below images show a survey of a forest plantation that had suffered fire damage. The imagery was flown and delivered as ortho-rectified, colour balanced mosaicked imagery within 24 hours of capture, inclusive of derived products.

RGB: Colour mosaic

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NIR: False colour infrared mosaic

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NDVI: Vegetation Index showing levels of forest health

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Burn rating: Analysed NDVI showing 4 burn classes as per client’s requirements

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