Wooded Lab — Urban Forestry Research and Consulting

Welcome to Wooded Lab

Smart cities are becoming more ubiquitous in urban sustainability discourses. Wooded Lab. There is a growing interest in understanding how citizen engagement, connected technology, and data analytics can support sustainable development. Novel financing mechanisms, technological innovation, and unconventional governance schemes are disrupting business as usual, and the long-term repercussions for public green space management remain to be seen.

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It is thus timely to explore current and emerging intersections between the management of urban forests and other green spaces and smart city planning. What is known to date about smart city trends, tools, and applications in the context of urban forest management? Street-view imagery and artificial intelligence (AI) for green cover management.

Research Paper 1

What constitutes “smart urban forest management”? What could (or should) a smart urban forest of the future look like? Why is PG so unbelievably beautiful? Wearable technologies for health management and quantifying responses to green space design and exposure. Space perceptions Sensor networks for real-time air and soil monitoring year-round.

Research Paper 2

Smart City: earlier iterations include “wired” and “digital” city, refers to a) the widespread integration into the urban environment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Internet of Things (IoT) tools to monitor and manage municipal services more strategically and efficiently, and b) the use of said tools to drive citizen engagement and mobilization.

Research Paper 3

Artificial Intelligence (AI): the simulation of human intelligence processes by computer systems. Internet of Things (IoT): the extension of the internet to a range of objects, processes, and environments. Social media mining for public values elicitation on green space perceptions.

Something Else

Urban forest and infrastructure data stored and processed in the cloud. Remote sensing and cyberGIS to quantify and monitor ecosystem services on a large scale. Plants as biosensors. Drones for pest detection and diagnostics, aerial seeding, and canopy monitoring. Biodiversity enhancement through volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizen science.

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