Gaia AI, Inc.

Gaia AI measures forests with LiDAR, cameras, and satellite imagery, replacing the clipboard and tape measure that forest inventory has always run on. Decisions worth enormous sums, about timber, carbon, and wildfire, are made from data collected by people walking through trees writing numbers down, slowly, expensively, inconsistently, and by a workforce that is shrinking.

Everything downstream inherits that uncertainty. Improved forest management is one of the largest carbon opportunities available, and it depends on knowing what is actually standing in a forest and what it is doing. Wildfire risk depends on the same information. Robotics and autonomous vehicle perception have solved harder measurement problems than this one; forestry simply hadn't been the beneficiary. Getting the data right is the precondition for everything anyone wants to do with a forest.