BALMA Consulting promotes collaborative research projects with several partners in technology development, creating a technology and innovation transfer from sectors of information technology, telecommunications etc to the environmental sector.

BALMA also consulting regularly collaborates with universities (Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Girona …) and technology centers (Technological Forest Center of Catalonia, AIDIMA - Technological Institute of Wood and Furniture …).

The main lines of R & D being carried out by BALMA are:

• LiDAR applications to forestry
• Advanced systems for the detection of forest fires
• Testing of fire suppression systems in forest-urban interface
• Social perception of citizens towards the forest sector