{"id":1129,"date":"2014-12-22T17:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:34:16","slug":"town-branch-trail-and-density-of-healthy-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2014\/12\/22\/town-branch-trail-and-density-of-healthy-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Branch Trail and Density of Healthy Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1130\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townbranch.org\/map\/TBT_Status2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tbt_2014_th.jpg\" alt=\"Which property has the healthiest canopy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tbt_2014_th.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tbt_2014_th-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which property has the healthiest canopy?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townbranch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Town Branch Trail<\/a> is a developing shared-use trail connecting downtown Lexington with the city&#8217;s outer countryside. The exercise shows the completed and funded phases for the trail, and assesses the extent and health of trees along the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Using <span style=\"color: #545454;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #545454;\">ational Agriculture Imagery Program<\/span><span style=\"color: #545454;\">\u00c2\u00a0(<\/span><span style=\"color: #545454;\">NAIP<\/span><span style=\"color: #545454;\">)\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a02012 imagery an NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) was created and then shown as a ratio per parcel area. After viewing the initial results, a student said, &#8220;This is a realtor&#8217;s map!&#8221; and then quickly visited the PVA website to compare property values to its &#8216;green index.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Branch Trail is a developing shared-use trail connecting downtown Lexington with the city&#8217;s outer countryside. The exercise shows the completed and funded phases for the trail, and assesses the extent and health of trees along the trail. Using National Agriculture Imagery Program\u00c2\u00a0(NAIP)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a02012 imagery an NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) was created and then shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,24,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-maps","category-free-maps","category-maps","category-maps-archive","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}