Vegetation is a serious challenge for utility companies. Trees and branches colliding with power lines, poles and other assets, is a leading cause of service interruptions and can even lead to wildfires. Traditional approaches to vegetation management can be expensive and labor-intensive, relying primarily on manual inspections and static records of the last time an area was trimmed. But the variety of contributing growth factors such as tree species, weather conditions, soil moisture, health, a...
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