I was looking at some maps over the web of my local area (google maps) and decided to switch to satellite view. I made an interesting discovery.
The photo of my area was taken in May of last year. As I looked over the area that I tap, I noticed that all the sugar maples were a bright green. Typical for early spring.
What was cool was that I could see all the areas that I had scoped out a few years back from my neighbors 40 acres behind the house. I could pick out the sugar maples (for the most part) from the satellite photo due to the brighter green color of the leaves!
I have done this in the fall by being able to pick out the yellow/orange when driving by a valley or hillside. Cool that I could do it in the spring, with a satellite photo that was timed just right. I took some screen shots to use as a future reference.
FWIW as they say.