PLYMOUTH, Minn. (FOX 9) - The truck that Conor Logan is spending a couple weeks driving along the streets of Plymouth gets attention for a couple of reasons.

One is the six-camera array on top, which people confuse for a Google car. The other is his speed.

"We can only go a maximum of 23 miles an hour while collecting," Logan explains.

While the cameras get a full panoramic view, it’s the two LIDAR sensors that are doing the work of creating a full digital copy of every tree he drives by.

"It’s collecting a point cloud of the tree," he says, "so that’s a 3-D model at the end."

Creating a virtual tree map

What we know:

Plymouth is the first city in Minnesota to create this virtual tree inventory, signing a contract with two companies, Greehill and Davey Resource Group, to do the

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