Mapping California's Urban Forest at Scale: An Error-Adjusted Canopy Time Series for Monitoring Change
Camille C. Pawlak, Jenn Yost, Jonathan Ventura, Griffen Guizan, Sara Arnold, Gregory Stewart Okin, Kyle C. Cavanuagh, Geoffrey A. Fricker, Matt K. Ritter, Thomas Welch Gillespie
The paper produces a four-year canopy cover time series for California using NAIP imagery and a U-Net model, showing no statistically significant trend in canopy change.
bioRxiv · May 7, 2026 · PreprintEcology