ENV 768b () / 2024-2025

Data-Driven Urban Forestry

Credits: 3

Spring 2025: Tu,Th, 10:30-11:50, 380 Edwards
 

 
This course focuses on urban forestry management using geospatial data to guide decision-making. Class participants will learn how to spatially depict tree canopy cover inequities that may demonstrate environmental injustice where apparent.  They will also learn how to integrate data about urban heat, storm water management, and how to apply such data to urban forestry management plans. Students will gain data skills (integration, standardization, analysis, and visualization) to support urban forest managers’ needs. Students will be introduced to key data management, analysis and visualization technique through lectures, readings, and practical exercises reinforced by field exercises.