1. A method for estimating vegetation growth relative to an object of interest, comprising: identifying a target vegetation from a second sensing dataset; identifying a corresponding target vegetation in a first sensing dataset, the first sensing dataset collected at a time before the second sensing dataset; attributing a first statistic to the corresponding target vegetation based on a distance of one or more points of the corresponding target vegetation in the first sensing dataset relative to the object of interest; attributing a second statistic to the target vegetation based on a distance of one or more points of the target vegetation in the second sensing dataset relative to the object of interest; and determining an encroachment rate from a comparison of the first statistic and the second statistic.