TreeView: A small satellite supporting precision forestry for nature-based solutions in a changing climate

The expansion of tree cover is a critical component of the path to net zero and the development of sustainable cities, but reaching this target will require extensive management of this resource. Through leveraging next-generation optical sensor technology and innovations across the payload and spacecraft development, TreeView will provide multispectral data at a ground sampling resolution on the scale of individual trees, providing measurement and monitoring capabilities from space at an unprecedented level. TreeView has been funded through to a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) by the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme. This exciting mission aims to deliver a new perspective on urban green infrastructure in the UK and internationally, and assess the health of larger forest stands. The mission has a challenging target of an end-to-end budget of £15M and to achieve this, cost, size, weight and power limits are imposed on the payload and spacecraft. Meanwhile, signal to noise performance, spatial and spectral resolution have been set to provide new and unique data not available from Sentinel-2 or commercial providers