TOPIC 3 – Timber and Innovative Wood-Based Products
Kolibree-Tech offers high-resolution Earth Observation data services through XSensee, a platform providing 10× linear super-resolution of Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery, with nominal 1 m output pixel spacing from native 10 m observations.
We seek cooperation with research consortia investigating sustainable forest-resource availability, biomass supply and the environmental performance of forest-based product systems.
XSensee can support the upstream resource-assessment component of research on innovative timber and wood-based products through:
- Spatial characterisation of forest cover, stand heterogeneity and vegetation dynamics.
- Multi-temporal monitoring of harvesting areas, forest disturbances and regeneration.
- Provision of geospatial indicators for modelling the sustainable availability of woody biomass.
- Integration of satellite-derived information with forest inventories, biomass models and wood-resource supply assessments.
- Spatial evidence supporting life-cycle assessment, sustainable sourcing studies and forest-resource scenarios.
The contribution of XSensee focuses on monitoring and characterising the forest resource supplying wood-based value chains. Project-specific validation can assess the added value of super-resolution using independent forest inventory and high-resolution reference data.
Kolibree-Tech offers image-processing and geospatial data services at preferential rates for non-commercial R&D projects.
We seek participation as an external technology supplier/subcontractor to eligible beneficiaries.
Scientific publications using the resulting super-resolved imagery must acknowledge Kolibree-Tech s.r.l.s. and cite XSensee and the relevant datasets under agreed research-use terms.
Kolibree-Tech s.r.l.s. is an Italian technology SME specialising in Earth Observation (EO), satellite image processing, geospatial intelligence and advanced software solutions.
The company develops XSensee, a proprietary geospatial intelligence platform integrating satellite data processing, multispectral image super-resolution, geospatial analytics and scalable data-processing workflows.
A core technological capability of XSensee is the application of 10× linear super-resolution to Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery, transforming native 10 m observations into enhanced products with nominal 1 m pixel spacing.
The platform supports the production of georeferenced, analysis-ready datasets for applications requiring finer-scale spatial information than standard satellite products. Its software architecture includes automated processing pipelines, geospatial data management and integration capabilities for scientific and operational workflows.
For the FORESTPathways Joint Call, Kolibree-Tech aims to make this existing capability available to European research institutions investigating forest ecosystems, climate resilience, precision forestry, disturbance monitoring, biomass estimation and forest-resource sustainability.
Our contribution focuses on:
- Multispectral satellite image enhancement and processing.
- Production of project-specific, super-resolved EO datasets.
- Multi-temporal geospatial analysis and data integration.
- Technical support for integrating enhanced imagery into scientific workflows.
- Support for quantitative validation against independent reference datasets.
As a commercial SME, Kolibree-Tech primarily seeks collaboration through specialist service contracts or subcontracting arrangements with eligible research beneficiaries.
To facilitate scientific research, the company offers preferential R&D pricing for non-commercial research activities conducted by universities, research institutes and non-profit research organisations.
Kolibree-Tech retains ownership of its pre-existing XSensee technology and requests appropriate acknowledgment and dataset citation in scientific publications using imagery generated through the platform.