Arbomapper

Purdue University spin-out that maps individual urban trees at scale with deep learning, computer vision and satellite data.

Inventory & mappingWest Lafayette, United States

Arbomapper is a startup spun out of Purdue University's Institute for Digital Forestry that uses deep learning, computer vision, and satellite data to map individual urban trees at scale. The tool has identified 280 million trees across more than 330 US cities, completing in an hour what previously took thousands of volunteers tens of thousands of hours. Co-founded by Songlin Fei and Ayman Habib.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #0343 Mar 2026 · Funding

    Arbomapper Spun Out of Purdue's 280-Million-Tree AI City Map

    Purdue's digital forestry team mapped 280 million urban trees across 330+ U.S. cities using PlanetScope satellite data and AI, achieving 92.5% count accuracy and locating trees to within 1.5 metres—processing all 330 cities in under a day. The work has been commercialised as Arbomapper.