AI has dominated the headlines lately — and not necessarily in a good way. From AI bot ChatGPT helping college students plagiarize essays to tools like Dall-E potentially spreading misinformation, ...
Instead of expensive and time-consuming human surveys, these maps are made by AI–and could help cities figure out where they most need to plant trees. In San Francisco, it took a team of arborists a ...
The recently launched Treepedia from the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visualizes the “green canopy” of street trees in cities around the world. Harnessing the ...
On one leafy block in a Brooklyn neighborhood, the “green view index”–measuring the percentage of canopy cover from trees–is 25%. On another, just a few blocks away, the difference is stark: The index ...
Philip Silva and his cofounder Liz Barry created TreeKIT because “of a realization that as the city has been planting one million trees, it is pretty much relying on volunteers to take care of those ...
A groundbreaking new digital map heralded as the first-of-its-kind now provides real-time stats on some of the city's tallest residents: its trees. Nearly 1 million trees around New York City can now ...