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One of the City of Cape Town’s satellite images shows the outlines of trees detected in a colour infrared image. Image: City of Cape Town
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Space images propel Cape Town’s urban forest dream towards reality

BY ARON HYMAN In its quest to become an “urban forest”, Cape Town says it is the first SA city to map its trees. With tree coverage of 7%, the city falls short of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation definition of an urban forest, “a…

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