Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial

Cecilia Keating
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Telecoms giant to provide Internet of Things sensors to aid research into tree growth and their potential for carbon for CO2 storage

The government is teaming up with Vodafone to carry out a three-month study using specialist sensors to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK's forests, the telecoms giant...

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