hawaii pacific gis conference 2012: forestry and tree mapping - the oahu urban tree canopy...

Sean MacFaden, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Teresa Trueman-Madriaga*, and Wai Lee*

University of Vermont, Smart Trees Pacific*

Pictometry International Corp

Pictometry International Corp

How much tree canopy do we have?

How much room is there

to plant trees?

Courtesy of Dodson & Associates

X = 477589.675 Y = 786620.334

Z = 532

X = 47780.122 Y = 786621.913

Z = 384

Tree Canopy

Grass/Shrub

Bare Earth

Water

Buildings

Roads

Other Paved Surfaces

Comparison to National Datasets

100%

0%

National Land Cover Dataset

TC Land Cover

34% 24%

Worldview-2 Satellite Imagery

TC Estimates

Derived from 2010 imagery (0.5m) and 2009 LiDAR

Derived from 2001 satellite imagery, 30m resolution

Grass/Shrub

Bare Soil

Other Paved

Tree Canopy

• 149,268 acres of land (excludes water)

• 56,218 acres of Existing UTC

• 50,727 acres of Possible UTC that is grass/shrub

• 20,890 acres of Possible UTC that is impervious (includes AG, Bare Soil)

• 21,725 acres is not suitable for tree canopy (buildings, roads)

Tax Parcels

U.S. Census Blocks

Zoning

Watersheds

Elevation Zones

Rainfall Zones

Spatial Statistics

Funding Provided by USDA Forest Service

University of Vermont, Smart Trees Pacific

Pictometry International Corp

http://letters-sal.blogspot.com http://nrs.fed.us./urban/utc http://smarttreespacific.org

Sean.MacFaden@uvm.edu

Jarlath.Oneil-Dunne@uvm.edu ttm@hawaii.rr.com

wlee@smarttreespacific.org

University of Vermont, Smart Trees Pacific

Pictometry International Corp