GoTrees at GALLANT Gathering · 9 November 2026

On 9 November 2026, I presented GoTrees (GOvan TREe-community for Ecosystem Services) in the Dear Green Trees session at GALLANT Gathering 2026, sharing our progress on mapping urban trees in Govan and our ambitions to extend this work across Glasgow.

Our approach brings together community tree surveys, aerial imagery, 3D LiDAR and deep learning to map tree species and size. I shared how fieldwork in summers 2025 and 2026 helps our models learn, and how this work has helped shape tree mapping in Elder Park. Community researchers also contribute knowledge about tree condition and wildlife that remote sensors cannot capture.

The engaging Q&A and very positive feedback were especially encouraging. We discussed how remote sensing, LiDAR and deep learning could help address a wider range of questions about trees in the future. Thank you to the GALLANT organisers and everyone in the session for the thoughtful questions and ideas, and to our project team and community researchers for making this work possible!

Meiliu presenting the GoTrees project to the Dear Green Trees session at GALLANT Gathering — Presenting GoTrees at GALLANT Gathering, 9 November 2026.

Meiliu explaining how community surveys, aerial imagery, LiDAR and GeoAI contribute to tree mapping — Sharing our approach to tree mapping with communities in Govan and, in the future, across Glasgow.

Read more about AI meets Glasgow’s Trees and our work with communities on urban tree mapping.