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We combine Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and Geography to discover unprecedented knowledge at the level of individual trees.​  

 

We use PlanetScope, Sentinel-2, Landsat, Skysat, Maxar and Gaofen satellite images to produce detailed maps on tree locations, cover, biomass, and canopy height, from local to continental scale.​

 

  View our maps!​​

 

Our work has been published in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, PNAS Nexus, Science Advances, Nature Plants, Nature Food, Nature Geoscience, Nature Ecology, Nature Communications, etc.​​​

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Latest

  • New study in Nature Cities studying urban trees with RapidEye and PlanetScope

  • Nature Reviews: High-resolution sensors and deep learning models for tree resource monitoring.

  • The Tree Explorer is regularly updated (all still experimental). 

  • We mapped about 3 million baobabs all over the Sahel, published in Nature Ecology.

  • New paper at ECCV 2024 including codes and dataset

  • New paper in Nature Sustainability also covered in "The Hindu".

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HIGHLY DETAILED

Trees are mapped as objects.

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Homogeneous

We combine sensors to improve temporal and spatial consistency. 

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Large Scale

We work at continental and even global scale.

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LONG TERM

We work on time series up to 25 years.

©2026 Martin Brandt; This work has received funding from various sources, including the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
grant agreement no. 947757

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