RevoWood

Let RevoWood digitize your forest. Their drones measure your forest area, analyze the inventory with AI and visualize the digital twin of your forest on the desktop, smartphone or via AR glasses.

RevoWood stands for digitalization in forestry, which is based on a drone that flies autonomously in the stand together with LiDAR technology. The essential advantage of this drone technology is that it flies under the canopy between the trees. This enables a very high level of precision and performance to be achieved in a short space of time. In terms of figures, one can assume an area coverage of one hectare or 1000 trees in 20 minutes. The entire volume of the tree is measured. This gives us the BHD, length and volume of each individual tree. The type of wood can also be output. In addition, each tree is located and numbered using GPS.
The accuracy of this type of tree measurement was tested in the course of a master’s thesis and averages 94 % for the BHD measurement and over 90 % for the volume comparison. The adjustment was carried out using a 3D laser measuring system in an Austrian sawmill.

In addition, future areas of application for RevoWood can be developed using the existing data. Based on the data comparison, RevoWood is able to process complete forest inventories with much smaller deviations than conventional methods in a fraction of the usual time.
In future, the display will be calculated using an algorithm and visualized via AR glasses/smartphone or head-up display in the harvester. This has two major advantages: firstly, it saves a lot of time on the display itself and secondly, it allows the expected amount of sawable timber to be determined at an early stage.
The digital twin will also enable more effective and targeted rope routing, as this can be conveniently planned in the office and displayed in the forest using AR glasses or a smartphone.
The issue of CO2 pricing is becoming increasingly important. The amount of CO2 stored in the stand can be calculated with each flight, so that the CO2 tracking obligation can be precisely tracked at all times.

RevoWood completed SHAPE in 2023 and is participating in FACTORY+ #8 (AplusB program) in 2023/24.