By Zoe Sagalow
Washington Business Journal
Measuring the sizes of chopped-down trees from their stumps is what D.C.’s Urban Forestry Administration can now do, with updated technology from tech company Esri for spatially enriched street-level imagery.
This is what Earl Eutsler, deputy associate director at the administration, said is making a big difference in tracking illegal tree removal since the technology was implemented in the past year.
“It’s all about being able to measure what’s no longer there,” Eutsler said.
So far, the administration has used the technology to determine which trees have been cut down illegally — that is, without the property owner first getting a permit — and assign appropriate fines to the people who removed them. But Eutsler said the administration is looking to evolve to a new approach going forward.
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