Vancouver, BC - Foresight Canada has announced Deep Forestry as the winner of CMPC’s Smart Forest Solutions Challenge, marking a significant breakthrough in forest monitoring. Deep Forestry's innovative approach, utilizing autonomous drones and AI, provides comprehensive forest analysis by scanning each tree to gather precise data on location, species, size, and volume. This detailed information facilitates optimized planning, efficient harvesting, and the creation of a 3D digital twin, enabling fieldworkers to prioritize forest health and biodiversity. This technology will empower CMPC to accurately track water consumption throughout the tree lifecycle, from seedling to harvest, enabling effective water management.

As the winners of the Challenge, Deep Forestry will have the opportunity to co-create a pilot proposal with CMPC, paving the way for co-developing operational strategies and tools that could be implemented across CMPC’s global plantations. This Challenge marks not only a win for Deep Forestry and CMPC, but for the future of the forestry sector as a whole, showing that innovative technology can drive significant advancements in sustainable forest management and resource efficiency.

Driving Economic Growth Through Innovation
In today’s rapidly evolving market, maintaining a competitive edge requires continuous improvement in cost management, productivity, and operational excellence. It’s also key to meeting net zero targets. Foresight’s Innovation Challenge program connects industries with practical, de-risked cleantech solutions designed to address real-world challenges. By facilitating the development and deployment of cutting-edge technologies, Foresight supports industries in achieving measurable results, driving sustainable growth, and enhancing overall efficiency.

About Deep Forestry
Deep Forestry focuses on robotics and machine learning. The company is one of the first who developed drones that can autonomously navigate in the forest, between the trees, under the canopy. Deep Forestry leverages RGB, LiDAR, and Hyperspectral sensor fusion together with AI and autonomous robotics to provide a near-perfect understanding of every individual tree in the forest.

About CMPC
CMPC produces and commercializes products based on pulp, paper, wood, and tissue. The company was born in 1920 with the production of papers and cardboards, and today commercializes its products through its three main businesses: pulp, biopackaging and softys, reaching more than 25,000 direct clients around the world.

CMPC has 54 industrial plants and a global presence in twelve countries. CMPC’s corporate purpose—making natural fibers for a better future—is integral to the company's way of doing business and guides its actions and operations toward a sustainable future on a day-to-day basis.

About Foresight Canada
Foresight Canada helps the world do more with less, sustainably. As Canada’s largest cleantech innovation and adoption accelerator, they connect public and private sectors to the world’s best clean technologies, de-risking and simplifying the adoption of innovative solutions that improve productivity, profitability, and economic competitiveness, all while addressing today’s most urgent climate challenges.

Source: foresightcac.com