Varuna Smart Forest
Thailand
Developed by Varuna (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Varuna Smart Forest is a digital solution which uses multispectral drone, satellite and Varuna Analytics platform to manage green areas and monitor changes of natural resources and environment in Thailand. This solution uses 1) Unmanned aerial vehicle or multispectral drone which improves work efficiency in particular, reducing the time spent on surveying the area by 10 times, reducing the cost and risk of using human labor in the field operations and 2) Satellite images to monitor and analyze large green areas at a high angle to suggest how this green area can be managed. Including how much carbon absorption in plants or forests can be collected. It helps in green area management and planning which contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases and increase the absorption of greenhouse gases where the results from the data were analyzed to assist operator decision-making process.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Forest management and monitoring services, Drone farm services, Farm management services
Delivery type (format)
Drones services
Monitoring systems (wireless, solar powered etc.)
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to government
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Varuna (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Local authorities / government
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Thailand
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes