Case Study: Pan Pac achieves faster, more accurate harvest reporting with Planet imagery

Automated Cutover Mapping With Satellite Imagery

Pan Pac Forest Products faced a significant challenge in accurately mapping clearfell areas across its 35,000-hectare estate for monthly reporting. Their manual process, which required harvest coordinators to spend up to six days each month on ground surveys, was time-consuming and prone to errors, leading to inaccuracies in reporting and forecasting. To address this, they worked with vendor Interpine to implement a solution using high-frequency PlanetScope satellite imagery from Planet.

Interpine's solution automated the collection and reporting of clearfell areas using Planet imagery. This innovation reduced the coordinators' monthly workload from six days to just 30 minutes of office validation, slashing the overall reporting timeline from one week to less than a day. The result was a 5% reduction in errors, significant time and cost savings, and improved data accuracy for Pan Pac's inventory reports and woodflow projections.

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