The Digital Forester

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 sh…

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 harvest…

Brendan Moore is a Project Manager at The Lyme Timber Company, a private timberland investment organization founded in 1976, and joins us from Vermont, USA. He shares with us why folks with the most …

Rolf Schmitz is the co-CEO and co-founder of CollectiveCrunch and while normally based out of Germany, joins us from Espoo, Finland. In his words, modelling nature is incredibly complex but also fun…

Alex Bilyk is the Forest Inventory Innovation Manager at Silvacom and joins us from the company’s Thunder Bay office. In this podcast, Alex talks about the state of lidar forest inventory across Cana…

Brandon Craft is a Technical Services Forester at Forest Resource Consultants (FRC) and joins us from Macon, GA. Immediately after completing his master’s degree in forestry from Auburn University, B…

Bruce MacArthur is the CEO of Tesera Systems and joins us from the foothills in between Cochrane and Calgary, Alberta. He started his career in forestry by working in sawmills at the age of 14 years …

Dr. Cassidy Rankine is the Western Canadian Account Executive at Planet and joins us from Vernon, BC to share his thoughts on the state of earth observation (EO) in forestry. With a Ph.D. in remote s…

Scot McQueen, Senior Technology Officer at the Forest Stewardship Council, joins us from Olympia, Washington to share with us how he is leveraging technology to drive positive and impactful change in…

Adam Dick is a Science Advisor at the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service and joins us from Fredericton. Adam was one of the champions that brought lidar enhanced forest inventory (EF…

Albrecht von Ruffer, CEO of SKYLAB, joins us from Hamburg, Germany. As a biologist by training and an entrepreneur with a successful exit already, Albrecht founded SKYLAB in 2017 to leverage advances…

Dr. Guoliang Liu, President of aiTree Ltd., calls in from China while on a business trip to talk about his journey over the last 30 years bringing his vision of a digital forest to reality. aiTree’s …

Doug Jones, Senior Vice President of Remsoft, joins us from Fredericton, NB to kick off Season 2 of the Digital Forester podcast. Doug shares his thoughts on digital transformation, precision forestr…

Gaetan Pelletier is the Executive Director of the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute in Edmundston, New Brunswick. With over 30 years of forestry experience, Gaetan reflects on some of the key tec…

Mike Sutton is the Manager of Innovation & Research at the Forestry Corporation of NSW in Australia. Mike, who started his career at a time where there was only one satellite in space and where rugge…

Joining us from South Africa, in between writing his Ph.D. thesis, Simon Ackerman, CTO of Forest Operations Research at Stellenbosch University, shares with us his knowledge and experiences as it rel…

From his treehouse in Sweden, Johan Ekenstedt, Founder of Arboreal, shares with us how he leveraged the lidar and augmented reality capabilities of smartphones to provide foresters a simple way of me…

Cam Brown is the Strategic Planning Forester at Forsite, which is a full-service forest management company that employs over 150 people from Halifax to Vancouver Island. He joins us to talk about the…

From New Zealand, to Laos, to the UK, to Guyana and back to New Zealand, Dr. Pete Watt, Team Leader, Resource Monitoring & Climate Change at Indufor Asia Pacific Ltd., joins us from Auckland to share…

Enda Keane, CEO of Treemetrics, pioneered the Internet of Trees (IoT) concept and was an early adopter of all things lidar, forest inventory, harvesting machine telematics, and satellite mapping tech…