Rho Earth: Forest Disturbance Intelligence
We help land managers see where disturbance occurred, how severe it is, and which forests are at risk of long-term decline.
Why Rho Earth?
Rho Earth focuses on a critical blind spot in forest management: understanding how storms, drought, insects, fire, and other disturbances translate into structural damage and delayed tree mortality. We combine science, data, and modeling to make those impacts visible, measurable, and actionable.
What We Deliver
Detect Disturbance
We identify where disturbance has occurred across large regions, using remote sensing and structural indicators to highlight impacted stands within days to weeks of an event.
Quantify Severity
Not all damage is equal. We estimate intensity gradients and stand-level severity so managers can prioritize field checks, monitoring, and mitigation where they are needed most.
Anticipate Long-Tail Impacts
Disturbance unfolds over years. Our goal is to help land managers understand which forests are likely to recover and which are trending toward delayed mortality and structural loss.
How We Work
Built for Land Managers
Our work is guided by practical questions from agencies and forest managers: What happened? How bad is it? What comes next? We design outputs that directly support those decisions.
Science-Driven
We draw on forest ecology, disturbance science, and statistical modeling, with a focus on rigorous methods and transparent assumptions rather than black-box scores.
Integrated with Monitoring
Our analytics are designed to complement existing programs, from FIA plots to remote sensing products, helping extend and connect what is already being measured on the ground.
Help Advance Forest Disturbance Intelligence
We collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service and research partners to improve how disturbance and delayed mortality are detected and understood. If you are interested in joint work, pilots, or focused studies, we would like to hear from you.
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