Guelph creating 3D digital map of street trees to help grow urban canopy
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Mobile LiDAR-equipped trucks have scanned Guelph's streets to create a detailed 3D digital inventory of urban trees, collecting two million measurements per second to update a 12-year-old tree database and identify planting opportunities toward the city's goal of 40 percent tree canopy cover by 2070.
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