AiTree: A computer vision system for automatic characterization and geolocation of single urban trees

What effect do urban trees have on the livability in our cities? What is the economic value of a single urban tree and which ecosystem services does it provide? Where are potential hot spots of invasion by forest invasive alien species? These and many more questions about urban trees are becoming increasingly prominent due to global urbanization trends, effects of climate change and new international trade routes. Despite the importance of urban trees, global sources of urban tree inventory data are limited by a reliance on manually collected data with low spatial and temporal resolution. Existing tree inventory data is restricted to street trees or other trees on public land and lack information on a large proportion of the urban forest, trees on residential property. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Verena Griess

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Partner:

University of California, Riverside

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment; Forestry

University:

The University of British Columbia

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