Reforestation
Satellite-Based Reforestation Monitoring for 50,000+ Hectare Operations
Rezatec separates your planted crop from competing vegetation at the stand level — so you spend brushing budgets where they actually matter.
THE PROBLEM
You planted 60,000 hectares last season. Six months later, you need to know which stands are establishing well, and which are being overtaken by competing deciduous vegetation.
Right now, that answer comes from field crews walking plots. It’s slow, expensive, and it only covers a fraction of your total area. The stands you don’t inspect are the ones that surprise you; dead crop trees and weed cover that could have been caught earlier.
For operations running mechanical brushing (common in the EU and UK) or mechanical brushing combined with herbicide spraying (common in North America), the difference between treating the right stands first and treating the wrong ones is real money.
WHAT REZATEC DOES
Rezatec’s Reforestation product monitors the establishment and progress of young forests following harvest or disturbance, measuring both crop establishment success and competition intensity from weeds or unwanted natural regeneration.
Competition Mapping
Proprietary algorithms separate planted crop trees (softwood) from competing vegetation (deciduous) or other/no vegetation within each satellite pixel (10m), based on spectral differences through the growing season. That means you see which stands have high weed competition and can route brushing crews there first.
Targeted Interventions
The system flags areas of poor establishment or high weed competition, enabling targeted silvicultural interventions. Instead of treating your entire estate uniformly, you focus mechanical brushing or spraying on the stands that actually need it.
Stand Prioritization
Rezatec identifies where establishment progress is slow and where competition intensity is high, enabling quick remediation of areas with establishment issues. Forestry teams can target field time and resources where competition is highest or establishment is uneven, and identify sites with delayed progress toward “free growing” status — helping prevent costly rework.
Density Monitoring
Rezatec provides stand-level aggregation of softwood cover, competition intensity, and total vegetation percentage. If you need to track whether planting density targets are being met across your estate, this is the data layer.
Treatment Effectiveness
When integrated with field data, Rezatec quantifies the results of herbicide or brushing operations, measuring the success of previous treatments. You’ll know whether last season’s brushing actually worked — or whether you need to go back.
GIS-Ready Delivery
Rezatec delivers GIS-ready shapefiles, vectors, and rasters for integration with existing forest management systems. Your team can pull data directly into the tools they already work in, or use the ForestSAT dashboard to explore maps, time-series, and reports.
15%
Up to 15% reduction in brushing and pesticide costs through targeted interventions
$1M+
$1M+ in proven customer savings from reduced establishment maintenance.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Commercial & Private Forestry — North America
Operations managing 50,000+ hectares of planted forestry. If you’re running mechanical brushing programs and supplementing with herbicide spraying, Rezatec shows you where to spray and where to skip.
Public Forestry & Forestry Commissions — UK
Government and public forestry bodies in Scotland and England. Rezatec’s platform is used by major forestry companies and agencies such as DEFRA. If you’re tracking establishment success across large publicly managed estates, this gives your field teams a satellite-informed inspection plan.
Trusted Globally
“Rezatec’s platform provides improved efficiency in field data collection, resulting in timely, accurate and spatially resolved results that meet our due diligence and business development needs.”
Peter Tittman, Investments Analytics Manager, New Forests
“Forsite is really excited about the innovative capabilities that satellite data can now provide to the forestry sector… we can enable our clients to be more productive, more efficient and more profitable.”
Cameron Brown, Forsite Consultants
“Rezatec provides the ideal remote sensing tool to capture robust metrics for canopy connectiveness, helping us measure how the project is improving nature across a wide area for the long term.”
Annie Murray, National Trust
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Rezatec monitor reforestation?
Rezatec uses satellite imagery and proprietary algorithms to separate planted crop trees from competing vegetation at 10m resolution, tracking changes through the growing season. Results are delivered as maps, reports, or GIS-ready files.
What types of vegetation can Rezatec identify?
The system distinguishes softwood (planted crop), deciduous (competing vegetation), and total vegetation cover. It does not identify individual species — it classifies vegetation at the cover-type level.
Can I see which stands need treatment first?
Yes. Rezatec identifies where establishment is patchier and where competition intensity is high. This enables prioritization of silviculture and interventions in underperforming areas, moving teams from periodic field checks to continuous, data-driven forest intelligence. Your team can use this data to route brushing, weeding, or mechanical treatment to the stands that need it most — and skip the ones that don’t.
How is data delivered?
You can access results through the ForestSAT dashboard (maps, time-series, reports) or receive shapefiles and GeoTIFFs for direct ingestion into your existing forest management GIS.
Is Rezatec suitable for both private and public forestry?
Yes. Rezatec works with major forestry companies, investment managers, and government agencies including DEFRA.
What kind of savings can I expect?
Documented results include up to 15% reduction in brushing and pesticide costs through targeted interventions, and customer savings exceeding $1 million in reduced establishment maintenance. Your actual results will depend on estate size, current treatment approach, and level of competing vegetation.