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GIS Based Street Tree Inventory & Work Management System. 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%.
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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 (> 35” DBH) about 3%
Why Inventory? What is your Objective? Snapshot Versus Management Tool? Complete? Frequency of Update? Available Resources and the Capacity of Your Organization?
UFATrees Strategy • ESRI ArcGIS – UFA Trees • Azteca - Asset/Work Management System
Arborist Field Scenario • Create Event Layer/Data Pump • Inspect sites • Update Inventory • Create Work Order • Data Pump
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
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.