LIDAR · POINT CLOUD INTELLIGENCE · TREE-LEVEL INVENTORY
Per-tree intelligence,
on every acre.
Transform raw LiDAR data into complete tree-level inventories. Measure every tree, everywhere — across plantations, natural forests, public lands, and urban environments.
ArborMapper combines LiDAR, AI, and advanced point cloud processing to automatically identify, classify, and measure individual trees with exceptional speed and accuracy.
8,685 trees
segmented in a single scan
THE PROBLEM
Forestry decisions depend on data. Most organizations don't have enough of it.
Traditional inventories sample a few percent of an area, then extrapolate across thousands of acres. The result is expensive to collect, slow to report, and stale before the next decision is made.
~$245
±10–15%
Where traditional methods fall short
01
High costs
02
Limited sampling
03
Slow reporting
04
Outdated inventories
05
Human error
THE ARBORMAPPER DIFFERENCE
One sensor. Two platforms.
The Knap XP2™ — an OS-1 Ouster sensor head — mounts on a backpack or a UAV without recalibration. Walk dense understory or fly an entire tract from above; both feed one Arbor Forge pipeline and one defensible inventory.
Backpack mode
Under the canopy
SLAM and inertial navigation run GPS-denied beneath dense crown. Capture stems, understory, and structure at walking pace — the detail a drone can’t see from above.
200 m
MAX RANGE
4+ h
BATTERY / MISSION
GPS-denied
SLAM CAPABLE
Backpack mode
Across the tract
Detach the head, mount it on a UAV, and cover hundreds of acres per flight. Canopy structure and terrain from above, georeferenced and ready to fuse with backpack passes.
100s
ACRES / FLIGHT
1″
POSITION PRECISION
GNSS-INS
DIRECT GEOREF.
Backpack and drone passes fuse into a single point cloud — understory detail and full-tract coverage in one inventory. Interactive hardware specifications coming soon.
HOW IT WORKS
From scan to inventory in under 24 hours.
01 · SCAN
Capture the forest
Walk it or fly it. LiDAR + GNSS-INS records millions of georeferenced points per acre, with SLAM filling in GPS-denied canopy.
02 · CLASSIFY
Separate ground from canopy
Arbor Forge classifies every point — terrain, stem, foliage — and builds a dense, clean, georeferenced 3D cloud.
03 · SEGMENT
Isolate every tree
Forest Metrics segments individual stems automatically — each tree a distinct object, traceable back to its points.
04 · MEASURE
Extract the metrics
DBH, height, volume, bifurcation, and location per tree — delivered as a tabular inventory and an explorable point cloud.
RESULTS & ACCURACY
Numbers that matter.
Every measurement traces back to the underlying point cloud — defensible by construction, published, never overclaimed.
±3 cm
DBH accuracy vs. field reference
100%
Tree census coverage, not a sample
8,685
Trees mapped in a single scan
24 h
Scan-to-inventory processing
MEASURED vs. REFERENCE DBH
Validation against caliper-measured reference trees across small, mid, and large diameter classes. R² = 0.96 · bias −0.27 cm.
INTERACTIVE POINT CLOUD
See every tree. Explore every
detail.
This is the data ArborMapper hands you — not a flat report, but an explorable, measurable point cloud. Every tree carries its own height, DBH, volume, and location.
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APPLICATIONS
Built for every forestry workflow.
Public Lands — Defensible inventory for agencies
Walk into the budget hearing with a 100% census, not a 5% sample. Inventory-cycle reporting for State DNRs and the USDA Forest Service — auditable to the point cloud.
Methodology you can publish
Per-tree geometry, stem reconstruction, and biomass inputs for growth-and-yield and carbon research. Every metric is traceable, repeatable, and peer-reviewable.
Timber Operations — Cruise and harvest planning
Per-stem volume and board-feet estimation across the whole stand. Plan harvests and price sales on measured trees instead of extrapolated plots.
Forestry
Survey Large Areas and combine data from various missions.
AUTHORIZED DEALER
Inspired Flight
We are an authorized Inspired Flight partner dealer, selling the drone platforms that carry the Knap XP2™ across every ArborMapper deployment.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Yes. The Knap XP2™ is a single OS-1 Ouster sensor head. Mount it on the backpack rig for under-canopy passes, then detach and mount it on a UAV for full-tract coverage — no recalibration. Both modes feed the same Arbor Forge pipeline, and their clouds fuse into one inventory.
A georeferenced point cloud, a per-tree inventory table (location, height, DBH, volume, bifurcation), stem maps, and the explorable viewer. Every value traces back to the points it was measured from, so the deliverable is auditable, not just a summary.
Yes — that’s what a pilot is for. We scan a representative stand from your land, process it, and hand back the full inventory and viewer so you can validate the data against your own reference trees before committing.
DBH validates to within ±3 cm against caliper-measured reference trees (R² = 0.96, bias −0.27 cm), with inch-level position precision. We publish accuracy by diameter class rather than quoting a single best-case figure — and never overclaim.
It’s built for it. Backpack SLAM mode runs GPS-denied beneath closed canopy where drones lose signal and line of sight, capturing stems and understory directly. Fusing a backpack pass with a drone flight gives you both the floor and the crown of even the densest stands.
BOOK A PILOT
Let's pilot ArborMapper on your forest.
Tell us about your land and your mandate. We’ll scan a representative stand, process it, and walk you through the inventory and viewer — usually within a single business day of the flight.
LEADERSHIP
“We don’t hand you a point cloud to clean up. We hand you trees you can defend.”
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RESPONSE
≤ 1 business day
DIRECT LINE
info@arbormapper.com