The Roadmap to Planning & Planting Trees is a new national model that identifies and helps prioritize potential tree planting sites by characterizing each planting site using a variety of environmental and geographic variables.

The process of identifying potential planting sites starts with identifying open space from aerial imagery. Through a series of simple geoprocessing steps, each open space area is converted to optimized planting sites. These optimized points enter a second geospatial modelling process that describes and categorizes each point by considering nearby features, providing the information local planners need to identify the most important planting sites.

For more information about completing a planting site analysis for your community, please complete the form below with as much information as possible. Just make a best guess for any field you're not sure about!