Mapping All of the Trees with Machine Learning – descarteslabs-team – Medium

All this fuss is not without good reason. They make oxygen for breathing, suck up CO₂, provide shade, reduce noise pollution, and just look at them -- they're beautiful! The thing is, though, that trees are pretty hard to map. The 124,795 trees in the San Francisco Urban Forest Map shown below, for example, were cataloged over a year of survey work by a team of certified arborists. The database they created is thorough, with information on tree species and size as well as environmental factors like the presence of power lines or broken pavement.