STAMFORD, Conn., March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelescope
Solutions (www.intelescope.com) is a forest analytics company that
utilizes drone and satellite imagery to transform the massive
forestry industry. Intelescope provides their clients (i.e. Pension
Funds, Timber REITs, TIMOs, Hedge Funds, Forestry Land
Owners/Managers/Consultants) with automated services at speeds of
50-100x faster than those of current processing techniques. This
enables more efficient management and a richer knowledge of timber
assets. To date, the company has raised $8.3
million.
In 2009, successful and proven entrepreneurs Steven Schlussel and Bert Cohen founded Intelescope and have since
built a growing team of 30 professionals to achieve the company's
long term goals of developing big data for forestry with predictive
analytics to optimize and preserve global forests. Similar to big
data giant Palantir, Intelescope is looking at big data to support
human decisions, improve efficiencies, and effectiveness.
"We have already shown success with some of the largest, leading
forestry players and look forward to helping our customers continue
improving productivity through automation, which prior to the
application of our advanced forestry analytics services, was a
distant and unattainable concept,"
said Steven Schlussel, Intelescope
chairman.
Forests today cover 31% of the earth's land mass and produce
wood products valued at over $500B
per year. Yet, much of the forestry industry has yet to reap
the benefits of broader advances in technology. During the last six
years Intelescope has developed substantial intellectual property
assets that clearly establish its global technology leadership.
The company has caught on with the forestry community. Many of
the leading forestry companies in the US, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South
Africa, Indonesia,
India, and China utilize Intelescope services.
Notably, Plum Creek Timber, the largest private
landowner in the United States,
has adopted Intelescope's iRow™ service commercially to improve
their pine plantations' inventory.
Contributing to Intelescope's success has been the emergence and
advancements of both the satellite and commercial drone industries.
Satellite imagery today is essentially available worldwide with
constantly improving image resolution, allowing Intelescope's
forest analytic services to cover massive amounts of land, at
minimal costs. Commercial drones cover less area, however,
produce extremely high-resolution imagery which enables Intelescope
to identify individual young trees. Similar to the evolvement
of marketing techniques, such as Google Analytics that now enable
you to identify individual leads, our individual tree detection
boosts the granularity of forest analytics. The
combination of satellite and drone imagery platforms allow
Intelescope to analyze the earth's surface cost effectively.
"With our sights on the enormous forestry industry, the
combination of our analysis, client data and the cloud, will
transform the industry," said
Steven Schlussel, Intelescope
chairman. "We are encouraged at the rate in which our technology is
being adopted and we look forward to continue leading the forestry
industry into the digital future, with predictive forest analytics.
An example is, predicting where forest fires will begin and in
which direction they will move."
About Intelescope
With offices in the United States,
Brazil and an Israel R&D
center, Intelescope Solutions is a global provider of
software-based forest analytic services enabling more efficient
management and richer knowledge of your asset. The company is
looking to develop big data for forestry with predictive analytics
to optimize and preserve global Forests.
Press Contact:
Ben Rudin
Intelescope Solutions
ben.r@intelescope.com
Phone: +(914) 980-6465
Stamford, CT
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