{"id":139102,"date":"2025-04-16T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/tree-census-how-is-india-counting-its-trees\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:55:22","slug":"tree-census-how-is-india-counting-its-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/tree-census-how-is-india-counting-its-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree census: How is India counting its trees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139102\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>India&#8217;s Forest Research Institute is organizing a count of all trees across Delhi, India&#8217;s capital territory containing the city of New Delhi, amid a controversy about illegal tree felling. The decision to launch the census was recently confirmed by India&#8217;s Supreme Court, with the judges instructing the institute to work towards increasing the city&#8217;s green cover. The project has been given a timeline of around four years and an estimated budget of around 44.3 million Indian rupees (over $516,600 or \u20ac455,800).<\/p>\n<p>In that time, the tree census takers are expected to do more than just count the trees in the territory. Experts and volunteers should also sort the trees into species, record their height, girth, health status and exact location. Most importantly for climate scientists, they are to record the so-called carbon mass of the tree \u2014 the carbon absorbed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. India aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, and trees have an essential part to play in controlling carbon emissions in the world&#8217;s most populous country. But there are other reasons to fight deforestation \u2014 a 2019 study by the Indian space agency ISRO reported that some 30% of India&#8217;s territory is at risk of desertification, and having more trees, especially in the cities, can curb the effects of pollution and heat-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Most measuring and counting are still done manually in India, with the data sorted into Excel sheets. At the same time, the census takers have started incorporating modern technologies such as remote sensing, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), drones, and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), improving both the accuracy of data and the speed of the process. In addition to traditional and AI-based methods, many countries also use satellite technologies to count trees. In this process, satellites take photos and send out radio waves or microwave signals, which bounce off the Earth&#8217;s surface and provide various types of data.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/tree-census-how-is-india-counting-its-trees\/a-72252282\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-690\/\">Tree census: How is India counting its trees?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[8925,575,1111,7854],"class_list":["post-139102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-delhi","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-india","tag-trees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}