Live Pilot provides a mobile app that lets city forestry teams build and maintain a tree-by-tree inventory of urban forests. Users walk routes, photograph trees, and the app automatically tags GPS, timestamps, and uses AI to identify species and health, with human verification ensuring data accuracy. The verified records are delivered to GIS platforms and paid out to mappers in stable USD, enabling continuous, paid, and reliable urban forest monitoring.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Municipal forestry departments rely on costly, slow consultant surveys that are infrequent and often outdated, making it difficult to maintain accurate, up-to-date inventories of urban trees for planning and health monitoring.
Solution
Live Pilot offers a decentralized platform that enables crowdsourced field mappers to capture tree data using a mobile app that automatically records GPS coordinates, timestamps, and photos. An AI pipeline processes each capture to identify species, assess health, and assign confidence scores. Human auditors or forestry staff spot‑check a sample of records to verify accuracy, after which the verified data are synchronized to GIS‑compatible formats within 24 hours. The system provides continuous updates, species diversity metrics, and health anomaly alerts, while paying contributors per verified tree, creating a scalable, cost‑effective solution for city forestry teams.
Target Audience
Primary customers are municipal forestry departments and urban‑infrastructure managers seeking frequent, accurate tree inventories, as well as city officials responsible for procurement of urban‑forest data services.
Features
- Mobile app that tags GPS, heading, and timestamp at the moment of each tree photo capture
- Tailored AI pipeline delivering species identification, health assessment, and confidence scoring for every record
- Human audit workflow where 10 % of records are spot‑checked to ensure data quality before GIS export
- GIS‑ready outputs (GeoJSON, CSV, Mapbox vector tiles) and API integration for ArcGIS or QGIS pipelines
- Real‑time dashboard with species distribution, Shannon index, and health anomaly detection
- Per‑record bounty paid in stable USD, with weekly automated payouts to contributors
- Tiered pricing (Pilot, Professional, Enterprise) based on municipal canopy size, with no competitive‑bidding thresholds for smaller projects