{"id":474488,"date":"2023-05-17T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=474488"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:45:36","slug":"tree-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/tree-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo\u2013based company Kerno Geo Solu\u00e7\u00f5es has developed a technology that can diagnose the health of trees without needing to dig into the ground or drill into the wood. The technique provides high-resolution images of tree roots and trunks thanks to two methods commonly used in geophysical studies: radar soil mapping and electrical resistivity. The former provides a three-dimensional map of the roots, even when they are covered by impermeable materials such as asphalt or concrete. The latter involves emitting a harmless electric current in the tree\u2019s direction to detect hollows or areas of rot in the trunk and branches. This information is essential to assess the risk of a tree falling and any need for management. \u201cIn geophysics, we study the interior of the earth and the subsoil using indirect methods. We adopted these methods for a different task, using them to study urban trees,&#8221; geophysicist Vinicius Neris Santos, a partner at Kerno Geo, told <em>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em>. The strategy, developed in partnership with the Technological Research Institute (IPT) and the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) with funding from FAPESP, has already been successfully tested in S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Sorocaba, and Belo Horizonte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Company develops technology to assess tree health by imaging the roots and trunk","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":474489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[224,200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-474488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-ecology","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474493,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474488\/revisions\/474493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=474488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}