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Quantified Trees - intelligent irrigation forecasting for city trees

  • Berlin, Germany
  • October 2021
  • Technologiestiftung Berlin
City trees are increasingly suffering from the consequences of climate change and challenges of an urban environment. With the "Quantified Trees" (QTrees) project, we want to counteract tree deaths in the long term by developing a prediction system supported by artificial intelligence (AI) that, using a wide range of databases, identifies city trees that are acutely endangered by drought at an early stage. During the project, two applications will be developed based on an AI algorithm. The applications will offer both the public administration and the civil society in Berlin the opportunity to optimise their irrigation management as well as getting involved and taking care of trees in the neighbourhood.
  • Open source
  • 80/20/0 (% m/f/d)
  • Public

Project stage (in ):

Beta/Testing

Implemented by:

External

Industrial Sectors:

Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, Administrative and support service activities

Usage of AI:

Data Management and Analysis, Information Retrieval

Generation of AI:

Traditional Machine Learning (Linear Regression, CART, SVM, etc.)

Model training:

Supervised Learning

Contact

Responsible Person

Technologiestiftung Berlin

Motivation and values

What in your view defines the public interest and how does your project meet this purpose?

City trees are increasingly suffering from the consequences of climate change and the challenges of an urban environment, where they have limited access to soil. Due to their slow genetic adaptation as a reaction to environmental changes, they are particularly affected by increasingly frequent drought periods and temperature extremes. The consequential damage of the increasing drought periods of the ongoing climate change can already be seen in Berlin, as many city trees already have to be pruned or felled due to massive deadwood development. With the "Quantified Trees" (QTrees) project, the consortium wants to counteract tree deaths in the long term.

How did the idea of your project come about?

Internal in our organization

What is the goal of your project in relation to the public interest?

Our solution is designed to help preserve Berlin's tree population and save water during the city administration's irrigation activities.

Design & Safeguards

Which stakeholders were involved in the process of development and implementation of the project?

Developer, External domain expert, Civil society, Public administration

How did you engage relevant stakeholders?

Workshops, Interviews, Co-creation process

Have the project results been validated by third parties?

No

Have the design and the results of the project been made transparent to the public?

Yes

In what way have the design and the results of the project been made transparent to the public?

By a public organization, By the open-source community

Involving the people who will be affected by the project is a necessary part of the project design

5

Which direct channels for feedback exist?

E-Mail

What technical and organizational safeguards have you implemented to protect personal data and mitigate possible harms? Choose all that apply

Authentication and access management

Is your project directly or indirectly contributing to solutions for the climate crisis or other UN sustainability goals?

Directly