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For decades, forestry has been framed as a traditional, even conservative, industry. But lately reports shows a different picture emerging in the planted tree sector: one where digitalization, advanced analytics, and AI‑enabled decision‑making are becoming central to how forests are grown, monitored, and, managed.

Technology is transforming the forestry sector, and Katam is leading this revolution with an innovative and efficient solution for forest inventory. By using georeferenced data and complete traceability, we offer a superior level of control and accuracy for our customers.

In August, Katam’s team visited new customers in Indonesia, a country renowned for its rich culture and vast tropical forests. Indonesia is estimated to have around 90 million hectares of total forest area, making it home to one of the largest tropical forest regions on the planet.

Katam technology is capable of reducing man-hours by up to 600 times, drastically reducing the need for a large field team, while collecting high-quality data at a high sampling intensity.

In the great realm of data processing, we must ensure that we provide the best results for your company and having a wide steady influx of data helps the decision making and long-term planning.

What matters to us, is to help you to improve the management of your forests and obtain high quality data. To achieve this goal, we have numerous approaches at our disposal.

After many years in Latin America, Katam has developed an attitude to always be open to solve the demands of our customers.

Have you ever imagined the possibility of using technology that increases productivity, reduces costs, generates a competitive advantage and even improves the results of your company’s forest inventory, in a simple and practical way?

We are happy to inform you that after the great success with drones and smartphones, Katam innovates once again using a new tool for collecting forest data: the GoPro camera.