The TreeMap

What The TreeMap does

The TreeMap is a French private limited company (SARL SilviaMap, SIREN 882 348 915) founded in 2020 by Dr. David Gaveau. It is a geospatial analytics firm focused on safeguarding tropical forests through satellite-based monitoring, deep-learning image analysis, and field investigations. The company operates with a small team of 7 employees and runs an enterprise field-sales motion, engaging directly with NGOs, government agencies, academic researchers, responsible businesses, and indigenous forest communities.

The company's core technology stack combines satellite remote sensing, cloud computing, deep-learning computer vision, and data mining to track deforestation, plantation expansion, and forest fires in tropical regions. Its flagship product is the Nusantara Atlas open-access geo-platform, which provides near-real-time tracking of oil palm, mining, and indigenous land activities in Equatorial Asia. Supporting products include a Fires Platform with global near-real-time burned-area alerts, the Global Palm Oil Map (19.60 million hectares across 49 countries), the Global Coconut Map (5.71 million hectares), and regional analyses for Borneo, Papua, Indonesia, and the Siberian Arctic. The firm also conducts land ownership investigations and field inventories to support compliance verification and indigenous land protection.

The TreeMap generates revenue through professional services — geospatial analytics, monitoring reports, webmaps, and field investigations — delivered via direct B2B engagement with institutional clients. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured around project-based institutional partnerships rather than standardized rate cards. The company also produces peer-reviewed scientific publications (in Science, ESSD, PLOS One, and Biological Conservation) that serve as a top-of-funnel credibility engine with its target segments.

Name

The TreeMap

Legal name

SARL SilviaMap

Website

https://thetreemap.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The TreeMap is a French geospatial analytics firm (SARL SilviaMap) founded in 2020 by Dr. David Gaveau, providing satellite-based deforestation, fire, and plantation monitoring services to NGOs, governments, academics, responsible businesses, and indigenous communities, anchored by its open-access Nusantara Atlas platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial Analytics and Environmental Monitoring Software

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (115310), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Forest Inventory, Mapping & Monitoring (GIS/Remote Sensing/MRV) (IMAMAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Timberland GIS, Remote Sensing & Data Analytics (AFAMAKAG), Monitoring, Survival Surveys & Carbon/MRV Services (Remote Sensing, Field Audits) (AFAMACAO)

Keywords

• Geospatial analytics
• Deforestation monitoring
• Satellite remote sensing
• Tropical forest mapping
• Plantation monitoring

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Geospatial Analytics Services: Provides satellite-based deforestation monitoring, fire detection, and plantation tracking services to institutional clients including NGOs, governments, academics, and businesses for compliance verification and environmental impact assessment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The TreeMap provides satellite-based geospatial analytics for monitoring deforestation, forest fires, and plantation expansion in tropical regions. Its flagship offering, the Nusantara Atlas, is an open-access geo-platform that tracks oil palm and mining company activities in Equatorial Asia, supplemented by professional geospatial analytics, web mapping, deforestation/fire/plantation monitoring, and field investigation services sold directly to NGOs, governments, academics, responsible businesses, and indigenous communities.

Product overview

The TreeMap is a geospatial company offering a suite of satellite-based monitoring solutions centered on its flagship open-access platform, Nusantara Atlas, for tracking deforestation in palm oil and pulp-and-paper supply chains. The company provides geospatial analytics, webmaps, deforestation/fire/plantation monitoring, and field investigations as core services. Supporting sub-products include regional analysis platforms for Borneo, Papua, Indonesia Fires, Siberian Arctic Fires, and global plantation mapping for oil palm and coconut using deep learning techniques. The product portfolio combines satellite imagery analysis, predictive modeling, and real-time monitoring to help NGOs, governments, academics, and businesses verify agribusiness compliance and support indigenous land protection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Nusantara Atlas: An independent open-access geo-platform that empowers anyone to verify deforestation in Equatorial Asia, tracking oil palm and mining company activities in near real-time.

Products and services

• Nusantara Atlas Independent open-access geo-platform that empowers anyone to verify deforestation in Equatorial Asia, tracking oil palm and mining company activities and their subsidiaries in near real-time, and mapping indigenous community land boundaries via dynamic web maps and time-lapse animations.
• Geospatial Analytics Documenting, studying and predicting human footprint on Earth using sophisticated image processing and data mining algorithms to help customers visualize environmental impacts of human enterprise.
• Webmaps Powerful visualizations of Earth's changing land surface delivered via impactful web maps and dynamic graphical user interfaces with animated maps across countries.
• Deforestation, Fire and Plantation Monitoring Real-time tracking of deforestation, burned areas, degraded lands, plantation expansion and processing facilities to measure the extent and timing of land-use changes in licensed areas.
• Investigations Field-based investigations on land ownership and field inventories for environmental compliance verification and indigenous land protection.
• Fires Platform Satellite-based alert system to detect burned areas in near-real time globally, with annual trend analysis of deforestation and fire drivers.
• Global Palm Oil Mapping First global map of closed-canopy oil palm plantations using deep learning and satellite data, distinguishing between industrial and smallholder plantations and covering 19.60 million hectares across 49 countries.
• Global Coconut Mapping First global coconut map using advanced deep learning and 2020 satellite data, covering 5.71 million hectares of closed-canopy coconut with accuracy confirmation.
• Indonesia Fires Analysis Refined burned-area mapping protocol using Sentinel-2 satellite analysis revealing 3.11 million hectares burned in 2019 across Indonesia's 34 provinces.
• Papua Deforestation Analysis Analysis of annual forest loss, road development and plantation expansion from 2001 to 2019 in Indonesian New Guinea with a predictive model for future deforestation.
• Borneo Plantation Analysis Two-decade satellite imagery analysis tracking expansion of large industrial oil palm and pulpwood plantations and old-growth forest loss in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo.
• Siberian Arctic Fires Analysis Study of Arctic warming effects on wildfires showing correlation between temperature and burned area, identifying a 10-degree threshold as a tipping point for fire activity.
• Indonesia Deforestation Analysis Satellite survey from 2001-2019 showing the connection between oil palm expansion, forest loss, and crude palm oil prices in Indonesia.

Quantifiable outcome

• Oil palm plantations doubled to 16.24 million hectares in Indonesia by 2019; Industrial plantations had larger impact than smallholder ones; Forest loss correlated with palm oil prices.
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Global Forest Watch (World Resources Institute): An open-access forest monitoring platform covering tropical and global forests with near-real-time deforestation alerts. Directly comparable to Nusantara Atlas in serving NGOs, governments, and supply-chain compliance buyers with satellite-based tropical deforestation data.
• Satelytics: Geospatial analytics company applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery for environmental and industrial monitoring (oil & gas, mining, utilities). Comparable technology stack (satellite + deep learning) and enterprise compliance use cases.
• LiveEO: Berlin-based geospatial analytics company using satellite imagery and AI to monitor environmental and infrastructure assets for enterprises. Comparable as a satellite + AI stack serving compliance, ESG, and supply-chain use cases similar to The TreeMap's offerings.
• Kayrros: Paris-based environmental data and analytics firm combining satellite imagery, deep learning, and field data for emissions, deforestation, and asset monitoring. Highly comparable in stack and target buyers (institutional clients, governments, corporates).

Broad incumbents

• Planet Labs: Public satellite-imagery operator with daily global coverage, serving forestry, agriculture, defense, and commercial monitoring customers. Comparable as an upstream data provider whose imagery powers many of the same deforestation and plantation mapping use cases The TreeMap addresses.
• Maxar Technologies: Large commercial satellite-imagery and geospatial intelligence provider serving government and commercial customers globally. Comparable as a broad incumbent supplying the high-resolution imagery layer that enables detailed forest and concession monitoring.
• Descartes Labs: Geospatial analytics platform applying machine learning to satellite imagery for agriculture, forestry, and sustainability customers. Comparable in offering cloud-based satellite analytics at enterprise scale, though focused more broadly than The TreeMap's tropical deforestation niche.

Emerging players

• Pachama: Carbon credit quality and verification platform using satellite imagery and ML to monitor nature-based carbon projects. Comparable in leveraging satellite + AI for forest-related carbon and ESG use cases, though focused on carbon markets rather than supply-chain compliance.
• Sylvera: Carbon ratings firm that uses satellite data and ML to assess the quality of nature-based carbon credits, including forest projects. Comparable as a satellite-driven forest analytics provider serving ESG and climate buyers with verification products.

Others

• Up42 (Airbus Defence and Space): Developer platform and marketplace for geospatial data and analytics built on Airbus satellite imagery. Comparable as an ecosystem enabler where The TreeMap-style analytics providers can source imagery and distribute processed outputs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-treemap

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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