Technology and Monitoring: Raising the Bar on What We Measure | Reforest the Future Summit

How can technology and monitoring improve the quality, transparency, and long-term success of reforestation? This presentation and panel from the Reforest the Future Summit examines how practitioners are using drones, data, ecological metrics, and field-based monitoring to understand restoration outcomes. Speakers discuss what technology can—and cannot—tell us about forests, communities, biodiversity, carbon, and climate resilience. Featuring: • Damien Kuhn, Chief Forestry Officer, Terraformation — moderator • Annalise Downey, VP, Client Services, Sylvera • Arti Dhar, Co-founder, Farmers for Forests • Dimple Patel, CEO, NatureMetrics • Romain Fay, CEO and Co-founder, Kanop CHAPTERS 00:00 Technology and monitoring in restoration 01:43 Setting the measurement challenge 08:03 Technology in the field 16:00 How drones can save time 16:16 Monitoring ecological outcomes 24:51 Building better restoration data 31:06 Measuring ecosystems holistically 39:34 Technology adoption in projects 42:45 Practitioner perspectives 47:29 Audience discussion 50:34 Carbon, demand, and measurement 53:06 Microclimate and co-benefits 54:02 Closing reflections #Reforestation #RemoteSensing #NatureMetrics #ClimateTechnology