Abby Seneor | AI Track | Compass AI & Data Summit 2025
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Claims a planetary vegetation twin is feasible by combining satellites, drones, LiDAR, thermal and hyperspectral sensors, IoT and federated learning into an edge-fog-cloud hierarchy that trims data volumes thousandfold. Key numbers: 3 trillion trees (2015), zettabytes if every tree were fully sampled, and city example of 300,000 trees with 72 hours to triage where only 30% can be saved. Concrete stacks used: 10 cm drone imagery, thermal + NIR multispectral, hyperspectral aircraft, on‑edge processing and cloud fusion — proven to produce actionable triage and beetle outbreak alerts.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Vegetation's unseen importance
- 2:13Forest metaphors to planetary data
- 7:23Trees inspire data infrastructure
- 15:25Measuring trees with physics
- 21:52Processing vegetation data at scale
- 29:13Tree intelligence use cases
- 37:35Learning from nature for systems
- 38:41Q&A
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