Tree health monitoring is a critical need for municipalities. Given the need to increase tree plantings, municipalities cannot afford to lose existing trees, which are threatened by increased droughts due to climate change. But with hundreds of thousands of trees for large cities to manage, it is impossible to visit every tree for a regular check-up.

This is why WEO has developed tracking of tree defoliation and discolouration to give cities and early warning sign of which trees to visit.

To understand how tree canopy coverage is changing over time, on both public and private land, growth monitoring is particularly important.

That's why TreeMonitor provides regular updates on tree growth and can identify new tree plantings.

Some of our clients also wish to understand biodiversity or vegetation connectivity information within their city. Therefore TreeMonitor data can be combined with other vegetation information on shrubs and grass to understand these elements.