Why People should care about Tree issues? Apart from their natural beauty, trees: Remove carbon dioxide from the air; absorb and retain air pollutants; reduce the load on storm sewers during extreme weather events; reduce energy consumption by cooling the surroundings (especially buildings and vehicles); provide food and habitat for important wildlife, including bees, bats,
Forestry / Woodland
Geocode to TreeOcode Niagara – Mobile technology winner
Introducing treeOcode Niagara I'm communicating on behalf of the Geospatial Niagara Group to introduce treeOcode Niagara. We're organizing a "crowd-sourcing" program to build an inventory of all the trees across the Niagara Region, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. The project is named “TreeOcode-Niagara”. We are using smartphone-based technology to capture essential tree attributes