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Analyze Boston

TreeTect - Likely Tree Locations in Nubian Square

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics

Updated Sep 4, 2020

About this dataset

Can we use emerging technology to support and enhance our tree inventory?

We worked with a small technology startup, Green City Watch, to use Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. We used this tool to remotely “predict” the likely locations of trees, as well as a few health indicators of those trees.

We started with part of one neighborhood (Nubian Square in Roxbury) to understand:

  • What the technology was capable of in an urban context, and;
  • Whether or how it might be a useful tool for internal and external stakeholders on a larger scale.

For more information on this project, and the results and implications of our work, visit the webpage here

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