Forestree

Forestree is a team of students from PolyU LSGI who have applied the GIS, Photogrammetry, and Remote Sensing techniques to develop a tool to quantify tree inventory and address management problems. Feel Free to content us with grp_Forestree@connect.polyu.hk .

Fung Shui Wood, Tai Om SSSI Segmented model

Secondary forest, Lantau island Tai O Road hillside

Tree Species Point Cloud Library (in development), Data from LandsD

Instance segmentation for tree species with low-altitude drone imageries (self-developed approches)

This is a sample native forest captured with 360 images from Shek Lung Tsai, Ma On Shen

Over the years, there has been a lack of unified tree planting and management policies in Hong Kong, resulting in confusion over tree ownership and responsibility for maintenance. A comprehensive tree inventory would help to clarify these issues and ensure the long-term safety of trees and the public.

There are more in-depth explanations in our storyline page.

There are some of the common ESG measures for the smart city forestry, still lack of automate and remote technqiues was adopted. So, Forestree can help the process of identifies, evaluating and managing the forests and vegetation arocss Hong Kong.

On the other hand, there are different types of forest, including the native Fung Shui Forest, woodland, secondary forest and plantation. They have a different ecological value, ecosystem and structures compare to each other, such as the trees in the Fung Shui Forest is bended and inclined, beside the trees in the plantation forest is closely packed and grown in non-native species (for example: Eucalyptus and Melaleuca cajuputi subsp cumingiana).

It is important to strike a balance between development and preserving trees, as both are essential for a sustainable and healthy environment. Forestree believes that this balance can be achieved through the use of our developed applications, such as automated tree inventory and bird and biomass counting via deep learning soundscape ecology.

Our applications can assist with government official Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) assessments and enhance their work towards a digital age.

There will be more discussion in the ESG and Forestree page.

Our prototype and solution is to provide an automate tree inventory application for deciding and optimisation of the forest logging and development.

Also, Forestree's tree inventory can mointor and mange those tree health condition with remote sensing techniques, to keep our forest safe by LandsD periodical aerial imageies. Those open data can do the chlorophyll, locaility and health monitoring and prediction.

We are not only limited in the tranditional remote sensing process, but also includes Geo-AI for the deep learning with local tree species and the integrated-processing with soundscape ecology for EIA.