Irish forestry software company Treemetrics is to double its workforce and launch a major global expansion on the back of signing a €1m contract with the European Space Agency.

Treemetrics continues to grow with it@Cork award

They have begun mapping every single tree on the planet with satellites, used 3D lasers to see the wood from the trees, and now they have developed a system to monitor logging machines as they work.

Conor Power learns how Treemetrics uses 3D modelling to assess trees while they’re still in the ground

Ten years ago some caravans had to be coaxed from a field in Mahon to make way for a squat cube building that now houses the National Software Centre (NSC).