Genesis AI Corp. is building systems that will create a “digital twin” of a forest, which could have broad applications in the industry ranging from wildfire mitigation to forestry or timber development.
“If you have a digital twin of a forest, you can model different outcomes,” said Genesis AI project director Brent Tolmie in an interview with Castanet News.
Tolmie is also the CEO of Carbonethic, a company that aimed to bring transparency to the carbon offset sector with predictive models through a system called Woodlands.ai.
Carbonethic was acquired by Genesis AI earlier this year with the realization that Woodlands.ai could have broader applications in the forestry sector.
The company is developing digital sensing technology, LiDAR drones, photogrammetry, and orthographic imaging, merging them into 3D models of real forests.
Tolmie said their program will eventually be able to model the impact of wildfires so that services know where to focus mitigation efforts.
Link: https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/448734/Kelowna-startup-bringing-artificial-
intelligence-to-forestry-sector