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America's largest landowner is using AI to map every single tree in
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its forests.
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Weyerhaeuser manages forest land roughly the size of the entire state of
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Indiana.
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And after 125 years of growing forests,
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they're betting artificial intelligence can double their annual profits by 2030.
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But how do you run a forest with software?
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The plan starts with a digital twin.
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Using satellite imagery,
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Jones, and LiDAR,
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they're building a database that knows the size,
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species, and location of every tree they own,
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which is probably over a billion.
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Inside the cab of their logging machines,
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an AI assistant highlights which trees to cut and which to leave standing.
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This is calculated by an algorithm that determines long -term value of the timber decades
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into the future.
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And they've already piloted a driverless skidder dragging timber around a logging
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site.
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controlled by an operator working from his home 400 miles away.
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Just for context of the scale of this operation,
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the company plants 190 seedlings every minute.
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So instead of sending foresters up steep slopes to count surviving saplings,
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AI now analyzes drone footage to do it faster and cheaper.
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So it turns out the forest of the future may be managed by algorithms long
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before it's ever touched.
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