Gallery of Tesera / HRIS Videos
About
Tesera / HRIS
Founded in 1997, Tesera is an employee-owned technology company. Our team reflects a unique combination of forestry and data IT skills and experience. We offer the most reliable, accurate, scalable, timely and cost-effective high resolution forest inventory solutions.
(2:16 minutes)
Demo of
HRIS
A high-level overview of the various steps used to develop (in collaboration with Perimeter Forests) a new forest inventory geodatabase over the productive forest portions of the mixedwood Painted Forest in the central Algoma District (about 80 km NE of Sault Ste. Marie.
(3:39 minutes)
HRIS and
ACCURACY
Over multiple projects and diverse forest conditions, HRIS is more accurate, with an increase in predictive accuracy of 66% (or three time as accurate). As such, conventional ground plot-based inventory would need at least 9 times the number of ground plots.
(5:03 minutes)
HRIS and
EFI / ITI
Both Enhanced Forest Inventory (EFI) and Individual Tree Inventory (ITI) are forest inventory approaches for collecting and analyzing data. HRIS provides the best of both worlds (combining EFI and ITI) in a single, unique and powerful forest and natural resource inventory.
(2:08 minutes)
Forest Change
Detection
Change Detection for Forests and Landscapes that automate multivariate change detection using remote-sensing data and time-series satellite imagery. Our solutions provide rapid feedback on land disturbances, moisture content changes, vegetation cover and forest health.
(3:51 minutes)
Introduction to
HRIS 101
This video offers an introduction to HRIS. HRIS uses remote sensing data, LiDAR, multispectral satellite imagery, ground plot data (along with terrain and climate data) to provide a more accurate, scalable, timely and cost-effective inventory. Learn more about our HRIS forest inventory solutions…
(2:06 minutes)
HRIS and
CARBON
Inventories play a critical role in the context of global climate change. They support sustainable forest management, contribute to biodiversity, conservation, and are essential for informed policy-making and international carbon and climate commitments.
(2:48 minutes)
Change Detection and SECURITY
Our solutions support security and enforcement applications. By providing real-time forest anomaly and risk identification, our platforms create actionable risk maps, helping security and operational teams meet regulatory needs, mitigate threats and enforce global environmental protection.
(5:00 minutes)