Reforestation

Satellite-Based Reforestation Monitoring for Commercial Forestry

Rezatec separates your planted crop from competing vegetation at the stand level — so you spend brushing budgets where they actually matter.

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THE PROBLEM

You’ve completed another successful planting season. Now the real challenge begins. As your newly planted stands begin to establish, you need to know which areas are developing well, where competing vegetation is affecting growth, and where management intervention is required.

Right now, that answer comes from field crews walking plots. It’s slow, expensive, and it only covers a fraction of your total area. Treating every newly established stand isn’t the answer either, increasing operational costs while often applying interventions where they’re not needed. As young stands develop, you need current information about how they are establishing, which stands are progressing well, and which are being overtaken by competing deciduous vegetation or require thinning.

For operations running mechanical brushing or mechanical brushing combined with herbicide spraying, the difference between treating the right stands first and treating the wrong ones is real money.

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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.

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Competition Mapping

Proprietary machine learning algorithms distinguish planted crop trees from competing vegetation and unvegetated areas. Updated annually, results are delivered as GIS-ready layers and maps that help forestry teams prioritize field inspections and vegetation management.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 & Public Forestry

Designed for medium to large forestry organizations managing reforestation programs that need a more efficient way to monitor establishment, identify competing vegetation, and prioritize management activities.

Trusted Globally

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“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

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“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

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“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.

What kind of savings can I expect?

Documented customer results include up to 15% reductions in brushing and vegetation management costs through targeted interventions, with customer savings exceeding $1 million in establishment maintenance (per JDI).