Araṇya
अरण्यthe forest — Satellite Forest & Land-Change Intelligence
What if you could watch a whole forest breathe — every clearing, every season, every tree it's losing — on your own computers?
A forest department gets oceans of satellite imagery and almost no way to turn it into action without shipping it to a foreign cloud.
The situation
A state forest department, watching a reserve through the seasons
The reserve spans thousands of square kilometres no patrol can cover. Each satellite pass is read by Araṇya on the department's own workstation. It tracks the forest as it greens and thins with the seasons, marks where people are pushing in at the edges, follows the health of each forest type — and flags the loss of even a single canopy, long before it becomes a clearing.
How it plays out
Step by step
- 01
The forest is watched over time
Each multispectral satellite pass is read locally and compared across seasons and years.
- 02
It reads cover, type & health
Araṇya classifies forest type and canopy health, and tracks how each grows or declines by season.
- 03
It catches change early
From a single lost tree to creeping encroachment to a burn scar — and where habitat and corridors are thinning for wildlife.
- 04
It points to what's coming
It projects where loss is trending, so rangers reach the valley before it's gone.
The system itself
Under the bonnet
Classifies forest cover and type from multispectral satellite imagery and tracks it across seasons and years — mapping deforestation, encroachment, burn scars and vegetation stress, the seasonal growth and decline of different forest types, and the habitat and corridor change that drives pressure on wildlife. It catches the loss of even a single canopy and turns a flood of imagery into a living picture of how a forest is moving.
What it means for you
The bottom line
- ▸Tracks cover, forest type and seasonal growth
- ▸Catches loss down to a single tree, early
- ▸Maps encroachment & habitat change over time
- ▸Runs on the department's own hardware — data stays sovereign