Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.
How do deep learning, Lidar, aerial imagery, and ESRI StoryMaps combine to enhance city-wide urban forestry management? This session briefly showcases the powerful role GIS recently played for urban forestry planning and tree maintenance for the City of Detroit. NV5 supported a multi-agency initiative using aerial imagery, Lidar, and machine learning to map tree canopy, provide measures of tree health, perform tree species classification, and identify ideal open planting spaces for new trees. These data were ingested into a custom dashboard which gives non-GIS savvy users, including the public, the power to navigate and understand the data as well as to provide valuable insights and summary information.
