carbon IEEE Spectrum profiles SilviaTerra Basemap The IEEE Spectrum magazine just profiled SilviaTerra's Basemap project. The article discusses how SilviaTerra's team of forest biometricians used machine learning techniques to analyze terabytes of satellite imagery on Microsoft
carbon Conservation Finance Network profiles SilviaTerra NCAPX The Conservation Finance Network just wrote an article titled "New Forest Carbon Offset Strategies Turn to Small Landowners for Big Impact" that profiled SilviaTerra's new Natural Capital Exchange (NCAPX). The
Dr. Nan Pond wins SAF Young Forester Leadership Award The Society of American Foresters has announced that Dr. Nan Pond, SilviaTerra's Chief Biometrics Officer, is the recipient of the annual SAF Young Forester Leadership Award. Nan is currently serving
carbon SilviaTerra's Guide to Forest Carbon Cut through the jargon and hype - SilviaTerra lays out a simple framework for evaluating forest carbon strategies: Real, Immediate, Scalable, Efficient (RISE)
precision-forestry Precision Forestry with SilviaTerra CEO Zack Parisa explains how SilviaTerra can help you harness the power of precision forestry. Complete your forest inventory projects on time, under budget, and above expectations with SilviaTerra Precision Forestry tools.
Welcoming Gordon Vermeer to the team! We're excited to welcome Gordon Vermeer to the SilviaTerra team as Chief Financial Officer. Gordon will also be leading financial and strategic planning for our Natural Capital Exchange (NCAPX), helping
remote-work SilviaTerra's Guide to Working Remotely SilviaTerra has been a fully remote company for the last 10 years. We would like to share some strategies that we use to make it work. Remember that, like any
Welcoming Riaz Jahangir to the team! SilviaTerra is excited to welcome Riaz Jahangir, who will be joining the Developer Team. With big projects underway (like Version 2 of our Basemap Technology), Riaz’s extensive experience building
AI is Set to Revolutionize the Credits Market - World Energy SilviaTerra co-founder Max Nova recently wrote an article for World Energy magazine's "The Power of Trees" issue. In it, Max discusses how data-driven, market-based solutions can harness forests
My SilviaTerra Internship Experience Working at SilviaTerra as a Tech intern for the summer of 2019 was an amazing experience. As an intern, I was able to contribute directly to the team, research and
Introducing the forestsamplr package! SilviaTerra is pleased to announce the release of a public Git repository, ‘forestsamplr’. This repository, found here: https://github.com/SilviaTerra/forestsamplr is a public, collaborative R package containing code
Use and utility of rasterized heatmaps - Part 2 In the first post in this blog series, we covered several ways that you can use a set of rasterized inventory heatmaps to visualize stand structure and delineate stands. In
Use and utility of rasterized heatmaps - Part 1 High-resolution heatmaps are a useful tool for field foresters, inventory managers, and landowners. They can be used for a wide variety of planning and management activities, including stand delineation, identification
Welcoming Nathan Rutenbeck to the team! SilviaTerra is excited to introduce the newest member of our Biometrics team, Nathan Rutenbeck. Nathan's a keen statistician and brings a wealth of Bayesian modelling experience to our team. His
2018 Joint Southern And Northeastern Mensurationists And IUFRO 4.01 Conference Members of our biometrics team spent the beginning of this week in Blacksburg, Virginia at an amazing joint meeting of the Southern and Northeastern Mensurationists organizations, as well as IUFRO
SilviaTerra sponsors ForestSAT Our team was excited to sponsor the annual ForestSat Conference in College Park, MD. Along with our co-sponsor Microsoft, we opened up early access for industry, conservation, and academic partners
All Hands-uquerque The SilviaTerra team has wrapped up another great All Hands meeting. This time around we met in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All Hands meetings are an important part of keeping our
How Model-Assisted Sampling Can Reduce Fieldwork This article first appeared in the August issue of The Forestry Source. In the previous Biometrics Bits article, "Sources of Error in Forest Inventory," we mentioned how a
VRP Sampling - Small Diameter Struggles This article first appeared in the January issue of the Forestry Source. Variable-Radius Plot (VRP) sampling has become the dominant method of sampling in forest inventory, but this hasn't always
How to Avoid a Common Mistake When Comparing Two Inventories This article first appeared in the March issue the Forestry Source. Comparing two inventories is challenging. There are many factors that need to be considered when comparing two inventory estimates
Sources of Error in Forest Inventory This article first appeared in the June issue of the Forestry Source. I remember a time in forestry school at Mississippi State when the professor had each student try to
conferences 2018 Association of Consulting Foresters Conference Max Nova spoke about how to "Make Remote Sensing an Easy Part of Your Daily Workflow" at the 2018 Association of Consulting Foresters national conference in Asheville, NC.
conferences 2018 Intertribal Timber Conference Greetings from Ocean Shores, Washington where SilviaTerra is presenting at the 2018 Intertribal Timber Conference. SilviaTerra founders Zack Parisa and Max Nova discussed how SilviaTerra's CruiseBoost remote sensing system is
conferences SAF Forest Tech Workshop: How To Not Waste Money on Forest Inventory SilviaTerra helped sponsor the Society of American Foresters Forest Technology Workshop this week in Columbia, South Carolina. SilviaTerra co-founder Max Nova presented a talk about the economics of forest inventory
Volume Update - Scaled Output One of the best features of SilviaTerra’s Plot Hound and Canopy cruising systems is that they are constantly evolving and getting better. In our previous post in this series
