Singapore, the island nation popular as a tourist destination, is also quite well-known for its tree obsession. The city-state with 5.45 million people’s homes and almost seven million trees and monitors them.
The nation is also obsessed with managing, linking, and tracking almost every aspect of life using technology. They continue to grow as a smart nation with a master plan for monitoring things. So, how can Singaporeans not track trees?
Internet Monitoring of Trees: Benefits
The National Parks Board of Singapore tracks six million trees as they have reached the standard size a tree is required to have for tracking via an app.
The Nparks team visits each urban tree regularly and checks its stability. But it isn’t evidently possible for them to go and physically check the remote tree system regularly. They can only perform that task along with other assessments virtually, from an office. A nation with an average daily temperature of 33°C in the summer, which consumes almost half of the year, naturally finds the internet monitoring system handier.
The process of this virtual tracking emits the efforts of their staff to wander around the hills to measure the trees in scorching hit, said the officials of NParks.
How Does It Work?
Singapore has formed a digital twin for managing the trees, one is LiDAR and the other is artificial intelligence.
A finite element model is also applied, along with LiDAR point clouds capturing and geo-locating plants via AI so that tree stability can be monitored under diversified weather conditions and consideration of tree architecture, root space, and wood strength among other factors.
To make you wonder more, the inspections include further steps. The organization even virtually examines the chlorophyll level of the tress via multi-spectral analysis using satellite remote sensing.
Street-level cameras offer remote visual checking through panoramic imagery, and the mature trees are tracked uninterruptedly with tilt sensors attached to them to detect risks.
