BACKGROUND

The exemplary embodiments relate generally to tree risk, and more particularly to managing strategies to ensure trees are able to provide benefits while minimizing risks.

Vegetation may provide numerous benefits to those living and/or working in an urban environment. For example, trees clean the air in the urban environment from fumes created by automobiles, factories, etc. Trees may promote improved health from lowering heart rates, lowering blood pressure, relaxing brain wave patterns, etc. Trees may also provide natural beauty in the urban environment that has been linked to lower crime rates. As trees increase with size and age, an amount of the benefits provided by the trees may increase. However, older and larger trees may also be more likely to drop branches or cause root conflicts on sites that the trees inhabit. Environmental conditions may also increase the hazards associated with trees such as when strong winds blow or precipitation events occur. The tree risk posed by the hazards associated with trees may cause damage to property or people. Thus, tree owners for trees that are personally owned or governmentally owned must manage the trees to reduce the tree risk while still availing to the benefits.

SUMMARY

The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for managing tree risk. The method comprises receiving images corresponding to a geographic area. The method comprises determining whether a first tree captured in at least one of the images has a condition exhibiting a tree risk that poses a hazard above an acceptable threshold. As a result of the first tree having the condition above the acceptable threshold, the method comprises generating a notification identifying the first tree and a location of the first tree. The method comprises transmitting the notification to a team equipped to remediate the condition of the first tree.

