Candrone doesn't just ship hardware. We configure, support, and stand behind every system we sell, so your team is flying confidently before the field season begins.
Project area, data requirements, terrain type, and timeline. Phone, email, or form works.
Right drone, payload, and software for your workflow and GIS goals.
Canada-wide delivery. Pre-configured, tested and flight-ready.
Transport Canada certification via Candrone Academy. Field ready before season begins.
Post-purchase support for the life of the system: firmware, troubleshooting, workflows.
We don’t just ship hardware. Candrone is Canada’s dedicated drone solutions provider, and forestry is our #1 vertical.
Whether you're managing timber inventory, monitoring canopy health, or delivering environmental assessments under deadline — there's a system built for your operation.
Manual timber cruising is slow, expensive, and misses large areas between sample points.
Cover your entire project area. LiDAR delivers tree height, crown metrics, and volume estimates at landscape scale.
Satellite imagery is low-resolution and months out of date. Ground data is incomplete.
Sub-metre airborne LiDAR captured this season. Compatible with ArcGIS, QGIS, and LiDAR360.
Baseline EIAs and change detection require consistent repeat data that ground crews can't deliver.
Establish an aerial baseline. Repeat-flight programs track disturbance, regrowth, and land use change.
Steep terrain, remote sites, and bush whacking put crews at risk and slow everything down.
Fly the terrain, not walk it. Candrone systems operate in all weather and reach sites ground crews cannot.
Drone programs deliver better data, faster, at a cost that makes the business case straightforward to build.
LiDAR-equipped drones capture individual tree height, DBH estimation, crown area, and stand-level volume data across your entire project area — not just sample plots. Outputs compatible with timber cruise software and GIS platforms.
Generate bare-earth DTMs and canopy height models across steep and remote terrain without survey crews. Plan harvest boundaries and road alignments before a single piece of equipment moves.
Multispectral sensors detect chlorophyll decline and canopy stress weeks before visible symptoms appear. Identify mountain pine beetle pressure and disease spread at landscape scale.
Every system is configured for your workflow, not pulled off a shelf. 0% financing available on all packages over $10k.
Teams starting a drone forestry program: health monitoring, basic inventory, orthophoto creation.
Teams needing accurate tree metrics, canopy structure analysis, and terrain modelling.
Professional operations requiring survey-grade accuracy, dense point clouds, and precision height metrics.
For customers whose contract, agency, or internal policy requires a fully NDAA-compliant platform and sensor stack.
Containment is not the same as out. Heat holds underground, in root systems, and deep inside burned stumps for days before it flares back up, and reignition undoes the work.
We fly the burn at night or just before dawn, when the difference between hot and cool ground is easiest to see. Thermal is paired with visual and zoom, so every candidate is confirmed both ways before it is logged, and sun-warmed rock, vehicles, and old burn scars get screened out before anything reaches your crews. A laser range finder pins each hotspot tightly enough for a ground crew to walk straight to it or for a tanker to target it directly.
What you get back is a GeoPDF that loads into the free Avenza app with live GPS positioning against every hotspot, a table of exact coordinates in your format, and a shapefile package for your own GIS. Delivered to your submission deadline, not ours.
Every flight is cleared with Air Operations and signed off by the on-site fire lead before the aircraft leaves the ground. Our pilots hold Level 1 Complex RPAS certification and carry the same wildfire training as ground crews, including S-100, S-185, and ICS 100.
LiDAR for Forestry is a practical training course designed by Candrone Academy to help forestry professionals, drone operators, and GIS analysts turn LiDAR data into actionable forest insights.
This course walks through the complete forestry LiDAR workflow, from flight planning and ground classification to canopy modeling, individual tree extraction, and defensible forest metrics. You’ll learn how to produce accurate, validated deliverables that support forest inventory, monitoring, and management decisions.
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Meet Cindy Moore, our forestry and environmental specialist. She works with woodlands operations, fire programs, and communities across North America on UAV and LiDAR workflows for inventory, terrain, and post-fire detection.
Cindy also knows the funding side. For many programs, the barrier is not whether the technology works, but how to pay for it.
Drone-based LiDAR achieves ±3–5cm positional accuracy and delivers individual tree metrics including height, crown diameter, and estimated DBH at a density that full timber cruises cannot match. Coverage reaches hundreds of hectares per day versus limited sample plots.
For many forestry inventory, mapping, and monitoring workflows, yes. We assess your required coverage, accuracy, terrain, and deliverables before recommending a replacement program.
Certification requirements depend on the aircraft, operation, and airspace. Candrone Academy provides Transport Canada Basic and Advanced RPAS training and helps teams understand their operational requirements.
Outputs can be configured for ArcGIS, QGIS, LiDAR360, forestry cruise software, and other GIS platforms using common formats such as LAS, LAZ, DTM, DSM, and orthomosaics.
Most clients are flying within two to three weeks of order, depending on equipment availability, configuration, training, and certification requirements.
Rental and demonstration options may be available depending on the required platform and project. Contact our team with your timeline and use case.
We recommend rugged systems suited to Canadian field conditions, including remote sites and cold-weather operations, while accounting for manufacturer operating limits and battery performance.
Drone programs provide current, high-resolution, application-specific data on demand. ROI depends on area, flight frequency, data requirements, and the cost of delays or lower-resolution alternatives.
Tell us about your operation. We’ll recommend the right system, walk you through the ROI, and provide a full quote, no obligation.
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