Vegetation

Counting trees from the conductor

How LiDAR from the wire changed trim cycles on 800 km of corridor.

6 min read

By the Stralen field team

Helicopter LiDAR sees the corridor from above. Heron sees it from the one place that matters: the conductor.

Clearance, measured

Every branch gets a distance to the nearest conductor and a date. Crews stopped trimming on a calendar and started trimming what was actually close.

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