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The Digital Forester
by Kevin Lim
Foresters that have embraced digital technologies to transform the business of forestry share their experiences and lessons learned in this podcast.
Episodes
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Bill Greer - Common Space
In this episode, Bill Greer, co-founder of Common Space, shares his unique journey from rowing to building humanitarian satellite constellations. We explore the evolution of geospatial data, the challenges of satellite imagery access, and how open data can revolutionize environmental and...
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Brian Huberty - Minnesota Forestry Association
In this in-depth interview, Brian Huberty, President of the Minnesota Forestry Assocation, shares his extensive experience at the intersection of forestry, GIS, and remote sensing. He discusses technological advancements, challenges in data adoption, and the future of geospatial tools in...
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Anton Holmström - Katam Technologies
Join Kevin Lim and Anton Holmström as they explore the transformative power of technology in forestry, from drones and AI to global trends and sustainability initiatives. Discover how Katam Technologies is revolutionizing forest management across the world. Key Topics The evolution of forestry...
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Dr. Amir Soleimani - TreeTrack
In this episode, Dr. Amir Soleimani, CEO and co-founder of TreeTrack, shares insights into innovative land restoration technology, the impact of wildfires, and the future of forestry. Discover how drone technology, seed pods, and AI are transforming ecological restoration efforts worldwide. Key...
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Carlos Albuquerque - INFLOR
In this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Carlos Albuquerque, CEO of INFLOR, discussing his journey from computer science to forestry, the unique aspects of Brazilian forestry, and the evolution of INFLOR as a leading forest management system. They explore the integration of technology in...
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Derrick Emsley - veritree
In this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Derrick Emsley, CEO of veritree and co-founder of tentree. They discuss Derrick's entrepreneurial journey, the founding of tentree, and the transition to veritree, a technology platform designed to enhance reforestation efforts. Derrick shares insights...
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Jason Dain - Remsoft
Jason Dain, Director of Product - Forest Operations at Remsoft, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from Ottawa’s outdoors to leading forestry tech innovation. Jason reflects on 25+ years in forestry and technology, from boots-on-the-ground operations to global...
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Levi Farrand - Deep Forestry
Levi Farrand, CEO of Deep Forestry, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from adventure guide and naval diver in Australia to leading a cutting-edge forest tech company in Sweden. Deep Forestry is pioneering fully autonomous LiDAR-equipped drones that can fly beneath...
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Alex Deslauriers - FireSwarm Solutions
Alex Deslauriers, Co-Founder & CEO of FireSwarm Solutions, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share how his personal loss to wildfire sparked a mission to transform how we fight fires. With a background in aerospace engineering and search and rescue, Alex and his team at FireSwarm Solutions…
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Domenico Iannidinardo & Aaron Fujikawa - Strategic Natural Resource Group
Domenico Iannidinardo, CEO, and Aaron Fujikawa, Director of Remote Sensing & Geomatics at Strategic Natural Resource Group (SNRgroup), join us on The Digital Forester podcast to share how they're navigating the future of forestry and resource management in British Columbia. Domenico brings…
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Lorne Carson - Carson Integrated
Lorne Carson, President of Carson Integrated, joins us on The Digital Forester podcast to share his journey from the East Coast to building a diverse group of companies rooted in Western Canada. Lorne walks us through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship in forestry, energy, and environmental...
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Howard Butler - Hobu Inc.
In this episode of The Digital Forester, Howard Butler, President of Hobu Inc., shares his journey from agricultural roots to leading innovation in open-source geospatial software. We explore the evolution of tools like GDAL, PDAL, and Entwine, and how they're transforming forestry, especially in...
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Dr. Nicholas Coops - UBC
Dr. Nicholas Coops, Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing at UBC, joins The Digital Forester podcast to talk about his journey through forestry, research, and innovation. We explore how remote sensing has evolved, its impact on forest management, and what’s next for the field. From global...
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Andrea Feunekes - Remsoft
Andrea Feunekes, co-founder and former CEO of Remsoft, helps us kick off Season 5 of The Digital Forester. Andrea reflects on 30+ years of leading Remsoft, building a global business from the ground up with her husband Ugo, and shares lessons learned along the way. We dive into the evolution of...
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Henry Ines - Chainparency
Henry Ines is Co-Founder and CEO of Chainparency and joins us from Houston, Texas, USA. Chainparency is a supply chain software and data solutions company that develops turnkey and modular blockchain-based applications and digital tools that help its customers to ensure transparency, traceability...
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Frank Mastrobuono - Global Surface Intelligence
Frank Mastrobuono is VP Sales, North America at Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) and describes himself as an inspired business development, management, and science professional with a passion for applying technological advances to management of our natural resources. GSI is a forestry and land...
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Eli Jensen - Ironwood Forestry
Eli Jensen is the Owner of Ironwood Forestry and joins us from Flagstaff, Arizona. Ironwood Forestry is comprised of a dedicated team of professionals with a passion for forest management and innovation with the aim of revolutionizing the forestry industry. Come have a listen on what the concept…
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Kevin Shorthouse - Northwest Solutions Inc.
Kevin Shorthouse is the Director of Northwest Solutions Inc. and joins us from Thunder Bay, ON. Since 2014, this Northern Ontario family-owned business has been dedicated to providing forestry, mining, and environmental services, along with expert training and communications consulting. Come…
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Rod Poirier - JRP Solutions Ltd.
Rod Poirier is the Owner of JRP Solutions Ltd. and joins us from Courtenay, BC. As a Canadian owned and operated company that has been in business since 1992 and managed by forest professionals and software engineers, JRP Solutions currently serves customers across North America and Australia…
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Alex van Gelder - Clear Timber Analytics
Alex van Gelder is the CEO and Founder of Clear Timber Analytics and joins us from the The Netherlands. Clear Timber Analytics provides accurate tools to help foresters with their daily duties by translating modern technology, such as high-resolution drone imagery and advanced data analytics…
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Dave Ginther - Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc.
Dave Ginther is the Owner of Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc. (VDTS) and joins us from Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Dave’s background is in the IT sector where for over 25 years he worked as both a general manager and consultant. Dave founded VDTS after discovering Voice Recognition as an...
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Marko Gasic - Mosaic Forest Management
Marko Gasic is the Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Mosaic Forest Management and joins us from Vancouver, BC. At the time of recording, Marko was the Vice President of Information Technology and Planning at Mosaic and successfully led several major digital transformation projects…
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Andrew Davis - Visual Forester
Andrew Davis is the Product Manager for Visual Forester and joins us from Bend, Oregon, USA. In his role, he helps natural resource professionals connect with stakeholders through digital twins of forests and the creation of immersive visualizations from their existing data. Come have a listen to...
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Mark Books - LandMark Spatial Solutions
Mark Books is the Geospatial Services Manager at LandMark Spatial Solutions. Mark is a Certified Forester of the geospatial variety and has applied these skills for over 25 years to research and forest management, including prescribed burning. He brings his experience to assist fellow foresters…
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George Banzhaf - TreeTracker
George M. Banzhaf is the CEO and co-founder of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing corporate inventory programs, field data gathering, R&D, reforestation and seedling genetics, drone and imagery, silvicultural operations, and GIS...
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Andre Cheung - Robotics Cats and Mike Ross and Rob Vernon - Indicium Dynamics
Andre Cheung is the Founder and CEO of Robotics Cats and joins us from Hong Kong with Mike Ross and Rob Vernon, Founder and CTO, and CEO, respectively, of Indicium Dynamics from Tasmania. Robotics Cats is a machine vision startup comprised of a team of talented engineers with diverse cultures...
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Preston Green - Miller Timber Services
Preston Green is the Assistant Vice President of cut-to-length (CTL) Systems at Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Oregon, USA where he responsible for harvesting management on a select number of harvesting teams, research and development of CTL innovations, and production analytics across a...
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Dr. Kerry Halligan - Woodland Solutions Group
Dr. Kerry Halligan is the GM of Technology at the Woodland Solutions Group. Kerry is a software developer with a background in forestry and a passion for combining the best in mobile, web and geospatial technology to solve complex data collection, management and analysis challenges. He is the…
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Donn Downey - Forest Metrix
Donn is a consulting forester, frequent speaker at forestry workshops and conferences, and developer of the Forest Metrix timber cruising software. Forest Metrix sprang from the woods of central Vermont with its development driven by foresters and the forest industry. Forest Metrix is deployed…
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Clint Graumann - NUVIEW
Lidar from space? Impossible, right? NUVIEW came out of stealth mode earlier this year and their mission is to revolutionize the Earth observation industry by building the premier commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using lidar...
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Ben Gwilliam - Ontario Woodlot Association
Ben Gwilliam is a Private Land Forest Inventory Analyst with the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ben completed a Master of Forest Conservation at the University of Toronto before joining the OWA where his work focuses on developing enhanced forest...
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Swapan Chaudhuri - Deeplai
Swapan Chaudhuri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeplai and joins us from Poland. TimberID is a complete platform solving the digitalization of forest management and reporting in terms of harvested timber database creation delivering timber provenance authentication, supply chain verification and...
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John Pineau - Ontario Woodlot Association
John Pineau is the Executive Director at the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Mattawa, Ontario. John has worked in the forest industry, led research organizations focused on driving innovation in forestry, taught as a professor at colleges, and most recently, is providing...
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Alex Meyers - TimberEye
Alex Meyers is the COO and Co-Founder of TimberEye, a company that reimagines how logs get measured, moved, bought and sold. TimberEye log scaling technology perfectly handles hundreds of thousands of logs a month with its operating system covering every aspect of log inventory management....
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Alicia Sullivan - Google
Alicia Sullivan is the Product Manager for Google’s Earth Engine Sustainability Solutions and joins us from the greater Seattle area. She obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Forest Resources Management from the University of Washington and started her forestry career at the...
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Steven Hawkes - LandVest
Steven Hawkes is the Vice President of Forest Resources at LandVest and joins us from Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Steven has been responsible for the oversight of a team of highly qualified foresters, GIS technicians, and administrative staff who provide a full suite of professional forest...
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Jens Fuglsang Røge - HD LogSystems
Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service company HedeDanmark a/s, whose history can be traced back to 1866. According to Jens, measuring wood should be easy and that is why HD LogSystems…
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Dr. Tuomo Kauranne - Arbonaut
Dr. Tuomo Kauranne is the CEO of Arbonaut, a Finnish company focused on building digital twins of forests. In 1998, Arbonaut developed the first forest inventory tools in the world capable of detecting individual trees from aerial and satellite imagery, and over its 25+ years in business, has...
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Markus Drugge and Jacob Hjalmarsson - Arboair
Markus Drugge (CEO) and Jacob Hjalmarsson (COO) of Arboair join us on this podcast. Many forest owners today lack forest data at a detailed level. At the same time, forest management could be conducted both more profitably and sustainably if we had high-quality digital decision-making data for…
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Dr. Matt Russell - Arbor Custom Analytics
Dr. Matt Russell is the President & CEO of Arbor Custom Analytics and offers data and analytics consulting services to forestry companies and organizations. With experience in forestry and analytics research, teaching, and outreach, and having authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed…
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Dr. John Lindsay - Whitebox Geospatial Inc.
By day, Dr. John Lindsay is a geomatics professor at the University of Guelph and the rest of time, he is an entrepreneur working as co-founder of Whitebox Geospatial Inc., which is a company that develops innovative geospatial software built on open-source. Come learn more about the…
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Dr. Dale Fried - 3DEO
Formerly with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Dale Fried is the Founder and CEO of 3DEO Inc., which builds upon US Department of Defense investments in Geiger-mode lidar totaling well over $100M spanning more than a decade. The company’s vision is to bring the advanced capabilities of Geiger-mode...
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Cakey Worthington & Zach Pardue - Anew
We kick off 2023 with Cakey Worthington, VP of Carbon Operations and Zach Pardue, Manager of Forest Information and Geospatial Systems from Anew. With the merger of Element Markets and Bluesource to create Anew, the company introduced "Climate as a Service” – an approach that offers companies and...
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter - Treeswift
Dr. Elizabeth Hunter is the COO and Co-Founder of Treeswift, a company that has built a new data and monitoring system for the natural world by pushing the frontier in robotic and machine learning technology. Treeswift has designed high-resolution sensors which can operate underneath the forest...
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Dr. Mark Corrao - Northwest Management Inc.
Dr. Mark Corrao is the Director of Technology at Northwest Management Inc., which is a leader in forestland and environmental management, providing expertise in forestry, technology, wildfire, water resources, wildlife, hazard management and planning. Dr. Corrao joins us from Idaho to share his...
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Taylor Griffith - TRACT
Taylor Griffith, Founder of TRACT, joins us from Athens, Georgia, USA to talk about how he leveraged his background in financial technologies to develop an all-in-one forestry procurement, accounting, and logistics solution for the forest industry. By streamlining data and processes TRACT gives...
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Bruce Ripley - Manulife
Bruce Ripley, Project Manager with the Strategic Innovation group at Manulife (Hancock Forest Management), joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the USA to talk about his multi-decade career in forestry and forest technology. Come listen to what Bruce is doing at Manulife with airborne lidar to...
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Dr. Elias Ayrey - Renoster
Dr. Elias Ayrey, Co-Founder and Head Scientist at Renoster, joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the US to talk about how Renoster uses remote sensing to determine carbon sequestration value for forest offset projects. Come listen to learn what Renoster has to do with rhinos and what deep...
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Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers - RasterMatics International
Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers, Principal Consultant at RasterMatics International, joins us from outside of Cape Town in South Africa. Mark gives us an overview of commercial forestry in South Africa and shares his experiences from having worked in forestry over the last 30 years. Come listen to why…
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Olle Gelin - AirForestry
Olle Gelin is the CEO and Co-Founder of AirForestry, which is a company that thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. AirForestry has developed their own electric drone and harvesting head to thin trees and fly them out to roadside from the air. Come listen to Olle describe a...
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Foresters that have embraced digital technologies to transform the business of forestry share their experiences and lessons learned in this podcast.
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