Improving Urban Tree Cover to Counteract Heat Islands

We know trees can reduce the urban heat island effect. A Nature Conservancy project is combining data on current tree coverage, heat, health, income, energy sources and more to determine where planting new trees would most help the communities currently most affected by the problem.

(The article’s in the context of Google’s role in the data analysis & visualization.)

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/improving-urban-tree-cover-with-google-earth-engine

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