Forest Signal is an environmental intelligence system designed to support better decisions for conservation, land management and environmental resilience.
Environmental organisations increasingly have access to large amounts of data. The challenge is turning that data into something timely, trusted and useful.
Forest Signal brings together multiple sources of environmental information to create a clearer picture of what is happening across a landscape, helping decision-makers identify change earlier, understand emerging risks and respond with greater confidence.
Why Forest Signal?
Forest Signal is being developed to help organisations respond to increasingly complex environmental challenges, including:
- Biodiversity loss
- Wildfire and climate resilience
- Flooding and land-use change
- Biosecurity threats
- The need for stronger evidence-based environmental decisions
The aim is simple: better environmental information should lead to better environmental decisions.
One picture from multiple sources
Forest Signal combines:
- Satellite imagery – providing large-scale, repeatable insight across landscapes
- Drone surveys – delivering detailed, targeted environmental information
- Sensor networks – supporting continuous monitoring and earlier identification of change
- Verified field observations – adding practical, on-the-ground context to the data
By bringing these sources together, Forest Signal is designed to turn environmental data into trusted environmental intelligence.
From monitoring to action
Forest Signal has the potential to support:
- Earlier identification of environmental change
- Better understanding of biodiversity and habitat condition
- Improved awareness of climate and wildfire risks
- Monitoring of land-use and landscape change
- Identification of biosecurity threats
- Stronger evidence for conservation, land management and policy
This creates a more continuous understanding of the landscapes organisations are responsible for.
Built on real-world experience
Forest Signal builds on Secure Forests’ existing experience in environmental monitoring, conservation and land management, including an earlier project delivered in Belize around six years ago.
We are now combining that practical knowledge with new technology and environmental monitoring capability to develop Forest Signal into a scalable environmental intelligence system.
Developed from Cornwall
Forest Signal is being developed from Cornwall, with Secure Forests based at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
This provides an ideal real-world environment in which environmental technology can sit alongside practical conservation and land-management activity.
The current development of Forest Signal is supported through TechLocal funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, helping us advance the technology and environmental intelligence capability.
Our ambition is to develop a Cornwall-built system with the potential to support conservation and land management across the UK and internationally.