About Us
Kitera’s mission is to solve the problem of tree monitoring in commercial forestry, agribusiness, carbon markets and municipalities. Today, forest managers mostly rely on traditional, manual on-site monitoring solutions to gauge inventory, survival rates, to conduct planting and harvesting, to measure carbon stocks, and to manage losses due to diseases, droughts and more. However, these methods involve substantial labor and extensive tedious manual information gathering. They are prone to mistakes and are not in tune with the digital age. Moreover, there is no way to get insights in real-time without sending employees and experts to the field occasionally. While some companies are also exploring newer technologies such as aerial inspections via drones and satellites, these methods are often prohibitively expensive (especially for high-resolution satellite image gathering) and are periodic rather than continuous solutions; therefore, they cannot detect stress in real-time.
Uniquely, Kitera offers a cost effective, science-based monitoring solution for both tree health and carbon monitoring – delivering inventory data, alerting to stress, and calculating carbon uptake both below and above ground in real time – even in remote, off-grid regions. Kitera can therefore ensure its customers prevent losses and sustainably manage their timberlands, forests, orchards or parks
