{"id":88761,"date":"2019-03-18T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/reforestation-drones-can-plant-100k-trees-in-an-hour"},"modified":"2019-03-18T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T22:02:40","slug":"reforestation-drones-can-plant-100k-trees-in-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/reforestation-drones-can-plant-100k-trees-in-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"Reforestation Drones Can Plant 100K Trees In An Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reforestation-drones-can-plant-100k-trees-in-an-hour.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure, it\u2019ll be great when a drone can drop off your Amazon Prime goodies or 7-Eleven snacks just minutes after you order them\u2026 but it\u2019ll be even better when they help regrow millions of trees.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what U.K.-based BioCarbon Engineering has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/06\/drones-plant-100000-trees-a-day?utm_content&equals;buffer6368b&utm_medium&equals;social&utm_source&equals;twitter.com&utm_campaign&equals;buffer\">set out to do<\/a>. The company has been developing a high-tech system that uses drones to replant deforested areas \u2014 even in areas where planting wouldn\u2019t be feasible using older methods.<\/p>\n<p>BioCarbon\u2019s system utilizes drones for two separate stages of the process. First, they\u2019re sent into the target area to create a detailed, three-dimensional map. Once they\u2019ve completed that step, the planting drones return to the site to do their thing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/g00\/tech\/reforestation-drones-can-plant-100k-trees-in-an-hour-1729318\/?i10c.ua=1&i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tLw%3d%3d&i10c.dv=20\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/g00\/tech\/reforestation-drones-can-plant...i10c.dv=20<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it\u2019ll be great when a drone can drop off your Amazon Prime goodies or 7-Eleven snacks just minutes after you order them\u2026 but it\u2019ll be even better when they help regrow millions of trees. That\u2019s what U.K.-based BioCarbon Engineering has set out to do. The company has been developing a high-tech system that uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}