Austrian city uses digital twin to manage its urban trees
Source: Smart Cities World
Leoben will use Greehill’s AI-based smart city solution to create a digital twin of 3,000 trees to monitor the population online and help to tackle climate change.
The Austrian city of Leoben in the state of Styrian is using digital twin smart city technology to tackle climate change through more effective urban tree management.
The city is creating a twin of some 3,000 trees, which will enable it to manage the population online and monitor and predict ecological developments using computer simulations.
Digital tree inventory
The tree inventory and platform for inspection and analysis are being provided by tech start-up Greehill, which was founded in 2017 by Gabor Goertz and Gyula Fekete as a research and development project to digitally transform urban forest management.
“Leoben joins a number of prominent cities with its digital tree inventory. The Greehill database and the comprehensive know-how behind it help us to analyse and manage the city’s tree population,” said Leoben mayor Kurt Wallner.
“With this data Leoben can increase its sustainability, biodiversity, and climate resilience”
The laser scanner will be driven through the streets of Leoben to capture a point cloud (a set of data points) of the city using lidar technology. Panoramic images will also be taken in the same way that Google does for Street View but with three times the resolution.