Boston, MA collaborates with Green City Watch on TreeTect digital tree inventory pilot

Boston, MA Green City Watch Tree Inventory Pilot

Complete

The pilot combined high-resolution satellite imagery with an AI-powered platform to identify 12,000 trees. City staffers and Green City Watch were able to catalog tree ages, sizes, and conditions. Tree health was evaluated against three vegetation indices as well as existing tree management data. Boston will use the digital inventory to anticipate tree maintenance tasks instead of relying on 311 calls and manual inspections.

Asset Management Parks and Recreation Planning Artificial Intelligence (AI)Pilot / POC

Boston, MA

Municipality in Massachusetts

United States

Attachments

TreeTect Final Report

1.72MB

Newsworthy

Partnering with Green City Watch to co-explore the application of an open-source tree-detecting algorithm | by New Urban Mechanics | Sep, 2020 | Medium

Editor’s Note: This piece was co-written by Nadinè Galle (Green City Watch) and Jaclyn Youngblood (New Urban Mechanics), describing a grant-funded prototype from December 2019. After COVID-19 delays…

Project Succeeded

The Office of New Urban Mechanics cited a 98% success rate for the algorithm in locating individual trees. Additional inventories with species identification are supported by project partners.

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