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Mapping
Define work more precisely and track changes across your site. High-resolution maps are always available in your viewer and your own GIS.
More about this serviceInnovative conservation management for open landscapes
Preserving open nature.
Even where management is difficult.
From insight to managementFor the nature of tomorrow
Open landscapes. New possibilities.
Managing open nature.
With insight and action.
Where does your site need attention? How can you deploy your available people effectively? And how can you reach sensitive areas? HeathClean helps land managers make these decisions and put them into practice, using a complete view of the site and drones for work in hard-to-access areas.
What we do
Four services.
One connected approach.
Start with the question you want to answer: gaining an overview, tracking change or taking targeted action. Choose one service or combine insight and practical work in an approach tailored to your site.
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Vegetation analysis
See where grass encroachment and saplings are increasing, compare surveys and adjust management. With vegetation percentages and separate GIS layers for the entire site.
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03
Sapling removal
Keep open habitats open, even in difficult terrain. Remove young conifer growth selectively without vehicle ruts, with the option to remove the cut material.
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04
Spreading for habitat restoration
Carry out restoration work where vehicles struggle to reach. Spread wool pellets, rock dust, lime and crushed shells precisely without vehicle ruts.
More about this serviceOur clients
Why HeathClean
The management challenge is growing.
So are your options.
Open habitats become overgrown when management cannot keep pace. Drones allow us to reach difficult terrain. Our maps help managers commission targeted work and follow the effects of management over time.
More work with available capacity
Drones add capacity where access and ground disturbance are limiting factors. Staff and volunteers retain more time for other management tasks.
No vehicle ruts
For sapling removal and spreading, vehicles do not need to enter the work area. This makes the approach suitable for sensitive sites and difficult terrain.
Comparable insight over time
We analyse the entire site using the same method each time. A three-year survey cycle provides an interim assessment to adjust management; more frequent surveys are also possible.
Built to scale
More hectares.
With one complete team.
4drones at once
2,000young trees per day
4 haper working day
720 hatarget per team per year
This is our target capacity from the planned scale-up in March 2027. Adding teams allows delivery to grow with the management challenge. Annual capacity assumes an average of 180 working days; terrain and sapling density determine achievable output.
Explore our scalable approachDemonstrated in the field
An idea
becomes reality.
Using our own cutting technology, we demonstrated that a drone can cut down young conifer growth, with the choice to leave it on site or remove it. This enabled us to reach our MVP milestone on 30 September 2026.
The surveys for the first pilot projects are complete. Pilot work for sapling removal is planned from November 2026, taking the tested solution into use with land managers.
View our projects
01 · Shepherd
HeathClean buys wool from heathland sheep at a fair price. Local wool gains a new purpose and shepherds gain an additional source of income.
Shepherd · Wool processor · Land manager · HeathClean
Innovation through collaboration
Wool from the local area.
Back to the land.
HeathClean connects shepherds, wool processors and land managers in a local wool cycle. Heathland wool gains a new purpose as wool pellets, which we spread precisely with drones.
Explore the wool cycleCaring for nature…
means a future for the generations that follow us.”
Remco Zeevat · Founder of HeathClean
Our story
Started on the heath.
Built for open nature.
As a beekeeper, Remco Zeevat helped his beekeeping association remove young trees from heathland. A ranger explained how the management challenge was increasing while budgets and volunteer numbers were not keeping up.
That morning raised a question that stayed with him: could technology help us do this work more effectively? HeathClean grew from that idea, with nature conservation as its starting point.
Read our story2024
A practical problem becomes an idea.
2026
A working solution and the first pilot projects.
2027
Planned scale-up to four drones and a mobile drone station.
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Discover what is possible
Your site. Our approach.
Meet us at a presentation or see the solution during a live demonstration in the field.