Drone Reforestation - Mining Industry

Accelerate the restoration of your mining sites

Much of the world’s mineral and energy resources are found in forested areas, which consequently experience severe disturbance and alteration due to surface mining.

After the extraction is completed, it is vital that your mining sites are properly restored and revegetated to ensure these areas return as healthy, thriving and fully-functioning ecosystems.

Lord of the Trees’ patent-pending drone planting technology provides an innovative, fast and cost-effective solution to help you overcome the challenges of restoring mined landscapes, while addressing principles from the Forestry Reclamation Approach.*Our drones can help map out and provide in-depth, real-time information about the land you need to restore. This first land analysis and research provides you with recommendations for reforestation of native grassland and forests, emphasizing:

Landform reconstruction modelled on natural systems and creation of topographic heterogeneity at a variety of scales

Use and placement of overburden, capping materials and organic amendments to facilitate soil development processes and create a suitable rooting medium for trees

Alignment of landform, topography, overburden, soil and tree species to create a diversity of target ecosystem types

Combining optimization of native species and drone planting techniques with early planting of a diversity of tree species

Encouraging natural regeneration as much as possible

Utilizing direct placement of forest floor material combined with seeding of native species to rapidly re-establish native forest understory vegetation

Selective on-going management to encourage development along the desired trajectory