For cities

Treeinventorydatayourcity canactuallyuse.

We map your urban canopy on a continuous cadence — species, DBH, canopy spread, location, health. GIS-ready exports your forestry department can drop straight into ArcGIS or QGIS.

Fast

Capture rate measured in trees per mapper-hour.

Consistent

Same protocol every record, every mapper, every city.

Tree data

The fields above, nothing invented, nothing inferred without confidence scoring.

Pilot · Austin, TX
Why Urban Pulse

The traditional inventory model isn't working.

Three reasons cities are turning to crowdsourced and AI-verified data.

Cost
Old way

Expensive

Consultant boots-on-the-ground inventories drain municipal budgets, especially for follow-up refreshes.

Urban Pulse

Affordable

Crowdsourced capture plus AI verification meaningfully lowers per-tree data acquisition cost.

Speed
Old way

Slow

Citywide inventories take months to plan, execute, and finalize before data reaches your GIS team.

Urban Pulse

Fast

Citywide data processing in weeks, not months. Continuous updates as new records flow in.

Freshness
Old way

Infrequent

Data is often years old by the time it is used for strategic planning and budget cycles.

Urban Pulse

Always current

Continuous monitoring cycles ensure your GIS layer reflects the living reality of your canopy.

Capabilities

What every record carries.

Six dimensions of canopy data on every verified asset, ready for your GIS layer.

Species ID

High-confidence genus and species identification using multi-spectral imagery and leaf-pattern AI.

Health screening

Automated vitality scoring based on canopy density and structural integrity.

Diameter measurement

DBH calculated via advanced photogrammetry and ground-level measurement techniques.

Canopy analysis

Per-tree canopy area to track climate-resilience and heat-island mitigation targets.

Ownership data

Parcel-accurate classification separating municipal right-of-way assets from private vegetation.

Risk screening

Flagging high-risk targets near power lines, sidewalks, or foundations where a follow-up survey is needed.

Dashboard

Command your canopy.

A centralized portal for arborists and planners. Turns raw scans into actionable maintenance schedules, work orders, and risk queues.

  • Real-time KPI tracking
  • Work-order integration
  • Interactive GIS heatmaps
  • GeoJSON / Shapefile export
City forestry portal · preview
Total assets
Live in pilot
Canopy health
Live in pilot
Risk items
Live in pilot
Interactive GIS mapComing in pilot build
Work orders

From observation to crew dispatch.

When an arborist spots a hazard from a tree record, one click opens a work order — priority, due date, and tree reference all carried over. Crews see it in the queue the moment it lands.

Open

Planner files the work order from the tree page.

Assigned

Routed to the crew lead with priority + due date.

In progress

Status flips when the truck rolls; blockers logged.

Resolved

Closes with timestamp + auditable history.

  • Linked to the originating tree + GPS pin
  • Scoped to the planner's city — no cross-tenant leaks
  • Atomic state transitions; no double-dispatch
  • Audit trail per status change
Work order · preview
In progress

Inspect root collar excavation

Tree pin AUS-DATS-00187 — visible girdling root on east side. Need crew with air-spade for excavation.

Priority
High
Due
Apr 12
Crew
Team B
History
  • Created by planner · Apr 06
  • Assigned to Team B · Apr 07
  • Started · Apr 11
Quality assurance

Three tiers of verification.

01

AI validation

Every submission is processed by our multi-model AI pipeline for species ID, photo quality scoring, and GPS accuracy verification.

02

Community cross-validation

Overlapping mapper coverage enables triangulation, with multiple independent mappers contributing to the same district over time.

03

Expert audit

Certified arborists review a statistical sample of submissions quarterly. EPA QAPP-aligned methodology.

Procurement

Designed for how cities buy.

Under $100K threshold

Available under Texas informal procurement threshold — no competitive bidding required.

Get started

Ready to map your city's future?

Schedule a demo to see how Urban Pulse modernizes urban-forest management from procurement to GIS export.

Pilot · Austin, TX