Climate Adaptation
Sacca-Backed Startup Sees Drones Reseeding Fire-Ravaged Forests
- Dendra system uses AI, drones to plant seeds, gather data
- Wildfires have devastated huge areas in California, Australia
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A startup backed by billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca and Airbus SE says it can turbo-charge forest re-growth in the aftermath of devastating wildfires like those raging across the U.S. West Coast.
Australia-based Dendra Systems uses specialized drones to survey vast areas of scorched land and produce an action plan to restore plant and tree life. The drones can then be used to sow seeds of native species much faster than traditional manual planting methods, at the same time providing a constant flow of real-time data on the progress of regeneration.