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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
OpenTreeMap is helping cities figure out where all the trees are, so they can better judge the environmental and public health impacts of a well-planted city. Here’s a hint: The impacts are huge.