GIS Based Street Tree Inventory

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GIS Based Street Tree Inventory Work Management
System
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• City of Trees
• UFA Street Trees, DC Parks Trees and
• Other Duties as Assigned
• 130,000 Street Trees?
• Good to Excellent Condition about 70
• Maples make up 38 of the street trees,
• oaks 31, and elms 10.
• Old Guard (gt 35 DBH) about 3

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Why Inventory? What is your Objective? Snapshot
Versus Management Tool? Complete? Frequency of
Update? Available Resources and the Capacity
of Your Organization?
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UFATrees Strategy

• ESRI ArcGIS
• UFA Trees
• Azteca
• - Asset/Work Management System

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Ward Based Arborist Teams
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Tablet PCs
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Arborist Field Scenario

• Create Event Layer/Data Pump
• Inspect sites
• Update Inventory
• Create Work Order
• Data Pump

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Management Uses

• Work Orders planting, removal, stump removal,
  pruning, warranty, PHC and emergency.
• Ooze Tubes stewardship of newly planted trees
  (ANCs, BIDs)
• Ginkgo Injections
• DED Injections

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Ongoing Commitment is Resource Intensive

• Funding, physical (hardware and software), people
  and time
• Technical staffing for the GIS and work
  management system
• Training staff continually to realign your system
  (tools) to your operational workflow
• Data maintenance and monitoring
• ...Analysis, planning, policy.