Our habitat is getting stripped of its most valuable resource: forests. We should not stop using timber industrially. Instead, this wonderfully diverse and regrowing resource has to be used in a regenerative way.

To achieve this, we need to know what’s going on forests around the world. Are there harvesting activities? Where exactly? Are they legal? How much biomass has been extracted or regrowing?

To answer these vital questions, Beetle ForTech developed an interconnected GNSS-based in-situ log tracing system, giving each harvested tree a unique identity to track timber throughout supply chains, verifying exact origin and ensuring exclusion of illegal timber from trade.

Alongside this in-situ tracking system, Beetle ForTech developed a (also interconnected) satellite-based forest monitoring system using S1 & S2 and other auxiliary data to monitor logging activities and forest health, verify removed biomass and to validate respective legal authenticity.

Merging these two systems via distributed ledger technology yields an unpriceable timber-data-management-system with vast possibilities for evolvement….this is only the beginning!