Using LiDAR to accurately measure vegetation volumes, proximity to rail (or OLE) and track growth rates over time.

Cordel Connect Vegetation module delivers rapid, accurate vegetation assessments, replacing months-long manual surveys with actionable insights in days.

Enabling proactive management allows railways to enhance safety, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency. This solution allows railways to track vegetation growth, prioritise encroachments, and optimise maintenance schedules - enhancing safety, compliance, environmental stewardship and network resilience.

Rapid, accurate vegetation insights

Transforms months-long manual surveys into actionable insights in just days. Our AI-driven system processes high-precision LiDAR data to create detailed 3D models of your vegetation corridors, offering centimeter-level accuracy. This rapid processing capability ensures you always have the most current data at your fingertips, enabling timely and informed decision-making.

Tailored analysis for your network

Cordel's Vegetation Module offers customizable profiles and risk assessments, allowing you to tailor analysis to your network standards. By affixing profiles to railheads or electrification, our system provides precise vegetation assessments that ensure that you can address unique challenges and optimize maintenance strategies with confidence.

Seamless integration across systems

Cordel's Vegetation Module seamlessly integrates with existing railway systems, offering intuitive visualizations and detailed reports accessible through our platform or via API. This integration allows railways to track growth rates, predict future encroachments, and optimize maintenance schedules.

Proactive environmental stewardship

Our solution provides a higher degree of compliance to standards whilst also supporting proactive environmental stewardship and increased network resilience through automated quantifiable assessments.

High-frequency vegetation monitoring solution from precise LiDAR data

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Vegetation encroachment

Identifies and measures vegetation encroachment into critical railway corridors, enabling proactive maintenance and ensuring safe, unobstructed operations across your entire network.

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Vegetation growth rates

Leveraging frequent, high-precision scans, our system accurately tracks vegetation growth rates over time, allowing you to optimize maintenance schedules, allocate resources efficiently, and prevent potential hazards before they impact railway operations.

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Vegetation risks scoring

Enabling intelligent data-driven risk scoring combining multiple data points—proximity to assets, growth rates, and historical patterns—to provide a comprehensive risk assessment for each vegetation zone.

What does the vegetation management look like in the Connect platform?

Cordel Connect's Vegetation Management module offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing vegetation along railway corridors. The platform provides precise, up-to-date insights into vegetation encroachment and growth patterns. With intuitive visualizations and seamless integration with existing systems, users can quickly assess risks and optimize maintenance strategies, ensuring enhanced safety and operational efficiency.

A platform that understands the demands of the global rail industry

Always open industry-standard formats

Seamlessly connect with existing systems using non-proprietary data formats, ensuring interoperability and future-proofing your vegetation management processes.

Multi-modal dataintelligence

Process and analyse data from various sources, including video, Cordel Wave LIDAR, and client-supplied point clouds, for comprehensive vegetation insights across your entire network.

Advanced compliance assurance

Maintain the highest industry safety and compliance standards with our robust quality assurance tools, featuring automated checks and full data auditability.

Vegetation-specific AI solutions

Cutting-edge AI algorithms, trained on over 2 million miles of track data, provide unparalleled accuracy in solving complex inspection and management challenges.

Rapid data delivery

Data turnaround is measured in days, not months and years. Providing improved metrics for currency, completeness and accuracy of data.

Damon Goulding Asset Planning Engineer, ARTC

“Results from the program have been outstanding and we are continuing to embed this new capability as the preferred method of inspections for transit space monitoring across the entire 8,500km ARTC Network.”

General Lozano Aguila Principal Program Executive, Tren Maya

“The Cordel Wave 32 LiDAR system has revolutionized our approach to infrastructure monitoring at Tren Maya. This technology allows us to capture high-quality data quickly and affordably, transforming how we manage our railway assets.”

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