US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis

1. US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Urban FIA - One Iconic City at a Time Urban October 2016

2. Urban FIA Status Update 2013 - 2016

3. Status Update – Why Urban FIA? Farm Bill 8301 subparagraph 2: “Implement an annualized inventory of trees in urban settings, including the status and trends of trees and forests, and assessments of their ecosystem services, values, health, and risk to pests and disease.”

4. Status Update - Implementation Urban Areas / Urban Clusters

5. Status Update - Implementation 25 Cities will be operational by 2017 Census-Based Statistical Areas

6. Status Update – Implementation FIA We are FIA

7. Status Update – Data Collection • Certification: • Training Tools • QA/QC: • Tolerance • Process • Score Program • PDR Program: • SRS Kelly Peterson / MIDAS Team • Urban Field Guide: • Combined and Adapted Both i-Tree & CORE

8. Status Update – Data Collection All 4 Regions will be operational in 2017 • NRS • 13 Cities and 2 Statewide Inventories • 859 plots in 2016 • Add 7 Cities in 17 • PNW • Add San Diego in 17 • RMRS • Add Denver, Colorado Springs,& Front Range CBSAs in 17 • SRS • 2 Cities, Both Have Completed a Full Cycle, Now in Remeasurement • Add San Antonio in 17 • 99 plots in 2016

9. Status Update – Data Collection Major Cooperators: Texas: • Acceleration in Both Austin & Houston • Reporting support form Chris Edger Missouri: • Add Springfield and Intensified STL & KC UAUC • Accelerate all 3 Cities Wisconsin / Vermont: • Statewide UAUC Intensification California: • San Diego Acceleration Cliparthut.com

10. Status Update – IM • Provide Overall UFIA Framework & Architecture • Developed Intensification and Plot Selection Processes • Developed Short and Long-term Solutions for Combining the FIA and i-Tree Processing Systems • Designed and Deployed UNIMS, UNIMS 2.0, & UDataMart • Provide Data, Summary, & QA Support: • Data Collection Group • Austin & Houston Reporting Teams • My City’s Trees APP • Urban EVALIDator

11. Status Update – IM

12. Status Update – Reporting • Austin Report: • First UFIA Report • Houston Report: • First to Include FIA Compilations • Urban Biomass Team • Explore Research Related to Urban Trees • Urban Reporting Team: • Next Generation Urban Reports • Integration of FIA and i-Tree Based Variables • Rural to Urban Team • Expand Analysis Comparing Urban and Rural Trees

13. Status Update – Tools

14. Status Update – Urban Survey • What? • Who? • Where? • When? • Pre-testing a survey instrument to measure attitudes and behaviors of urban residential owners regarding their trees and other green spaces • Private urban residential owners with some type of green space (yard, garden, trees) • 3 Pilot cities • Austin, TX with Texas A&M Forest Service • Madison, WI with the Wisconsin DNR • Baltimore, MD with the Urban Field Station • Pilot surveys began December 2015 with results from Austin expected by April 2016 Want more information? Contact Brett Butler, NWOS coordinator, bbutler01@fs.fed.us

15. Progress: • Lots of interest in Urban Wood Flows • Have identified interested parties in 5 cities • Baltimore field station has taken the lead • Identifying where FIA fits in best • Working with John to find a path forward Status Update – UTPO

16. 5 Year Vison

17. 5 Year Vison - Implementation • Create national timeline for full program implementation • Hub city CBSAs • Remaining Urban Areas • Focus both personnel and funding on annualized base program implementation • Build, expand, and maintain urban forest monitoring networks • Seek advice, collaboration, and partnerships • Explore the world outsider the traditional FIA circles • Become the “go to” sources for urban monitoring data for these new contacts • Build & maintain a national UFIA corporate knowledge base • Establish subject matter experts in all regions • Continue to develop UFIA website

18. 5 Year Vision – Data Collection • Continue to fine tune PDR and Field Guide • Unify the urban and CORE pre-field process • Continue to identify and train certified urban experts • Continue to fine tune QAQC score program • Continue to expand staffing options • Keep on Keeping on……………

19. 5 Year Vision - IM • Build and deploy national UNIMS • Enhanced Flexibility to accept FIA, UFIA, & special projects • Enhanced metadata capability • Incorporate i-Tree business logic within UNIMS • One national processing system

20. 5 Year Vision - IM • Build standard report generation application • Automated table generation • Automated data summary report generation • Automated summary map generation • Semi-automated data processing report generation • Semi-automated sample selection report generation • Support standard FIA public portals for data access • Urban DataMart • Urban EVALIDator • Support additional applications related to • My City’s Trees and similar Apps • Dynamic and interactive maps and data visualizations

21. 5 Year Vison – Reporting FIA computed attributes added to UFIA in stages • Mapping site conditions (land use, ownership) • Tree-level volume, biomass, carbon • Carbon sequestration • Added variables (seedlings, invasive plants) • Growth Removals and Mortality (GRM) • Area change Research needed on the applicability of some variables in urban areas Houston report

22. 5 Year Vision - Reporting San Diego Reporting Team • Build a national model for urban FIA reporting • Develop analytical strategies for reporting beyond the city • Explore the use of dynamic online reporting capacities VISION UFIA Reporting Template

23. Implementation - Steps

24. Implementation Steps – Marching Orders • Don’t Break CORE • Tree is a Tree • Partner Up with i-Tree • 100 Cities with One Approach • Think Regionally but Act Nationally………ONE Vision • One National Processing System (CORE & i-Tree Combined) • Annual Statistical Updates (on-line) Followed by More Comprehensive Analytical Report Every 5 Years • Do Not Fail !!!

25. Implementation Steps - Sideboards Federal Base Commitment: • Urban Areas(Blue) = 1:6k Acres • Intensify city (Red) = 200 plots • CBSA defined a project • Cycle length = CORE length • Data collection is annualized • Efforts limited to: • City limits • Urban Areas • Cooperators may: • Intensify plots in Blue areas and / or Red areas • Accelerate data collection

26. The Loneliest Number?

27. Not the Lonely Way ….. but the Only Way!!! • Vision—the Power of One: • One program • One team • One manual • One PDR • One set of code • One processing engine • One database • One instance • One system • One set of deliverables • One etc.

28. Not the Lonely Way ….. but the Only Way!!! Freeing up resources will allow 4 units to: • Focus on new and innovative analysis across the rural to urban gradient • Explore cutting edge means to share such analysis • Expand our user base • Emerge as the leading source of comprehensive forest data in both rural and urban ecosystems

29. Implementation Steps – Data Collection • Ensure San Diego & CO Success 2016/17 • Resolve Forking Issues 2017 • Resolve Tree vs Stem Approach 2017 • Update PDR and Field Guide 2017 • Lock down Field Guide 2018 • Test Updated QA Score Program 2017 • Continue to Build Internal Expertise Ongoing • Expand Contracting Pool Ongoing

30. Implementation Steps – IM • Form a transition team for I-Tree to UNIMS work • Form team: Sum 2017 • Complete initial import of logic: Fall 2019 • Deploy U FIADB 2.0 Fall 2016 • Deploy stable version of UNIMS Fall 2018 • Build front end interface for UNIMS Fall 2018

31. Implementation Steps – IM • Build reporting tools based on selected technology • Technology assessment Fall 2018 • Build reporting tools Fall 2019 • Build applications to support major processing tasks • Pre-field Tool: Fall 2019 • GPS / coordinate management: Fall 2019 • Data editing / validation: Fall 2020 • Build system Dashboard • Start Fall 2020

32. Implementation Steps – IM • Perform a critical analysis of data deliver tools to ensure maximum usability of published data • Fall 2020 • Align UNIMS with FIA’s evolving strategy for spatial information • Fall 2021

33. Implementation Steps – Reporting Urban FIA report production: • Houston report Fall 2016 1 • San Diego report Fall 2018 1 • Portland, OR; STL, KC, SPR, MO & San Antonio, Fargo reports Fall 2019 6 • Baltimore report Fall 2021 1 • Milwaukee, Madison, Providence, & Des Moines, MSP, Portland ME Fall 2022 6 Total 15

34. Implementation Steps – Reporting Urban Template development • San Diego Reporting team 2017 • Support from Urban to Rural Team Ongoing • Develop new analyses Ongoing Publish interactive online content (Story Maps) • Publish UFIA Overview Story Map 2017 Formalize urban data approval process • Develop standard output for review and approval 2017 Identify urban forest research needs • Urban Volume / biomass / carbon team forming 2016

35. Implementation Steps – Reporting QA/QC analysis • Data storage, access, analysis, and reporting • Ongoing Develop urban training program for FIA analysts • Database structure, access, and queries • Linked to San Diego Reporting team formation • Coordinate with IM folks to train FIA urban analysts

36. Implementation Steps - Timeline ? Cities ? 3+ 11 ? Deploy UNIMS Build UNIMS Front End Build Reporting Tools Import i-Tree Logic Align UNIMS 4 Spatial Info IM 6 Reports 0 0 1 6 in 2022 1 5 4 First Peek 0 1 4

37. Resources

38. Resources - Data Collection

39. Resources - Data Collection

40. Resources - Data Collection

41. Resources - Data Collection

42. Resources - Data Collection Pre-field / Field Corporate Knowledge Base Trainers QA Staff Contract Administers Outreach • 96 Cities • 4,120 Plots / Year • Plot locations vs. crew location • Production rate 2/plots day • 1-6 plots a day possible

43. Resources - Data Collection Reaching out for DAB assistance • Master Species List, and who collects what • CORE Forking rules • 1/3 Diameter, 45 degrees, and ………….. • Define a Branch vs. a Stem

44. Resources - Data Collection Midas Team • Midas Tools Team- Progress and Assignments functions • Plot Planning Tool w/ IM • Continue PDR program development IM • Unify and automate Urban and CORE pre-field process • Plot Planning Tool Analysis • Basic training / workshops with tools such as EVALIDator • Basic data retrieval workshops

45. Resources -IM Production: • At least two full-time employees dedicated to production tasks including both pre and post field. Development: • Three full-time employees serving in one or more of the following roles: • Business analyst / Modeler, System Architect, Database designer, Application developer, Project manager / coordinator, Liaison to FIA teams, Liaison to CIO, GIS system architect, R programmer / developer. Testing: • Part-time employee to independently test system elements Documentation: • Part-time employee dedicated to management of documentation for public-facing elements of the system • Full-time employee dedicated to management of documentation for internal-facing elements of the system

46. Resources -IM

47. Resources - IM Production • Sampling Frame Intensification and Plot Selection • PNW Ron and Tom working with Mark on San Diego Development • UNIMS proof of concept: • RMRS Troy / Bryan import standard P2 data • UNIMS development: • RMRS Deb Boyer invested in working with Hatfield Data Processing: • Working on an Agreement with UNH - Lucie IT: • Agreement with Davey Resources Group - Vid

48. Resources - Analysis • Each region will need at least on UFIA analyst • Coordinate reporting for the unit, collaborate with local, state, and regional partners. Serve as reginal representatives on national teams to improve analysis • IM support • For prompt data processing, QA, and summarization for analysts to produce reports and have access to tools like EVALIDator • Biometric / statistical support • Improve modeling and compilation methods for urban areas ( volume, biomass, carbon estimation). Rural to Urban analysis. • Techniques & GIS support • Spatial analysis and improved • Administrative support for contracts

49. Resources - Urban Tools Review Identify individuals in each Region test / evaluate / expand: • Urban EVALIDator: • My City’s Trees • i-Tree Landscape • UFIA Story maps Explore the

50. Resources - Urban Forest Research Identify research needs to improve U-estimation • Urban versions of FIA rural based compilations such as volume / biomass / carbon estimation • Need support from the research community to fill gaps in urban science knowledge • Additional funds to support research • Future biomass study