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Counting trees may not exactly sound like interesting or lucrative business. Yet, with a global market size of 227 billion $ there are obviously many more people active in the forestry sector than anyone not belonging to the sector would initially assume.
Forestry plantations require tracking the development of its trees in order to identify health and growth problems in the trees and to project the optimal timing of a harvest and its monetary value.
Typically, this is done by analyzing various small samples throughout plantation and inferring from that the total volume of lumber. Analyzing here means: Count trees, measure thickness of the trees, and observe any anomalies.