to sylvia tierra start up wants to use ai to improve forest management in the united states the software assesses forests using satellite imagery recording species of the tree use their height and the density of the forest this information allows from. fission forest management biodiversity and helps ensure the water supply. right now scientists that are focused on conservation and are spending hours just sit through images by using artificial intelligence you save the time why did you use to take one hundred days you can take only a couple of hours and that time is now spent back in research instead of sifting through images. most ai systems that seek to protect the environment are still in development. how effective will be remains to be seen. as processing all that data takes a lot of energy. for a project to be worthwhile it will have to be effective enough to offset that energy consumption. here's one thing you can do use a search engine that plants trees in directly of course because the s.s. they invest eighty percent of their ad revenue and reforestation and conservation project