Related: Just the other day I used USGS 3DEP LiDAR data + Claude Code to get a sense for the number of trees on my property. Diffing terrain map and canopy map gives tree elevation. It was a fun project to explore, primarily because I set CC loose and said "here is the bounding box of my property, pad it by 50 feet and then go absolutely nuts against government datasets gathering as much open data as you can" - it figured out the rest. Dug into soil maps, historical satellite imagery, and lidar data.
why does meta map canopy heights?
This is really cool, I wonder how old the satellite data they used is, it’s a bit unclear
This is an important question.
The tree outside of house is not 9 feet tall per. I have a 2 story house and it easily towers 10 feet higher than my house.
Additionally, there are several Royal Palms that are close to 50ft and they show as being only 15 feet.
Related: Just the other day I used USGS 3DEP LiDAR data + Claude Code to get a sense for the number of trees on my property. Diffing terrain map and canopy map gives tree elevation. It was a fun project to explore, primarily because I set CC loose and said "here is the bounding box of my property, pad it by 50 feet and then go absolutely nuts against government datasets gathering as much open data as you can" - it figured out the rest. Dug into soil maps, historical satellite imagery, and lidar data.
Here are the visuals re: trees - https://i.imgur.com/R0W4q4O.png