[CANUFNET] Tree Inventory Software

Mon Jan 22 11:42:17 EST 2018

HI Shane,

The City of Regina uses the ArcGIS platform for its tree inventory. We ‘ve been using this platform for about 3 ½ years now.   Within that platform we use the ESRI’s Collector app on iPad technology right at the crew level for our data collection.  It was an in house solution created with some help from our IT staff and was relatively inexpensive as our city uses the ArcGIS platform corporately.

Tree Crews record daily work on each tree right onsite.   They can see previous work that has been completed to the tree as well as take and access photos for record keeping purposes.  (Right now it is only set up to track for up to 3 work cycles).   From a work management point of view  we can also follow what has been done at an individual tree level  or track by work type at a macroscopic level.  All practically live time.   When the crew submits I can see it at my work station almost instantaneously if I wish.   Ex storm damage,   scheduled pruning,   service call pruning all by type of crew.   Illustratively  I did do this this past October 18 and tracked our storm damage work progress every couple of hours or so.   From that I could compare locations and work done to the call coming in from residents.   It was the first time we did this and was neat to watch.  It made me feel rather comfortable that we were responding well.

Currently of our 176,00 trees that we think we have – we have approximately 76,000 street tree pieces inventoried.  We also track vacancies on our street trees and have found that overall we seem to be about 71% stocked.  We also have but in a high level calculator working in the back ground so we can get some initial analytics of the value of our urban forest as an asset (individual tree and forest as a whole.  Point is that ESRI can do this for you its just how you think at approaching it and query what you want to do.

For 2018 – we will start to approach of inputting our capital “P” park trees.  This will help us gain a more comprehensive view of the urban forest beyond street trees.

I am pleased with the ArcGIS solution.

Best Regards,
Russell

Russell Eirich
Manager, Forestry,Pest Control & Horticulture
Parks and Open Space Department.

P: 306-539-1480
Email:  reirich at regina.ca<mailto:reirich at regina.ca>

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From: CANUFNET [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Shane Tillapaugh via CANUFNET
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 5:52 PM
To: canufnet at list.web.net
Subject: [CANUFNET] Tree Inventory Software

Hello fellow CUFN listserv subscribers,
The City of Courtenay (on Vancouver Island, British Columbia) Parks Division has recently begun to devote more resources to the management of trees in our city.  This has included the creation of a City Arborist position a couple of years ago, and more recently we have undertaken a street tree inventory (+/- 2,000 specimens).  As you might observe, our urban forestry program is in its infancy.  The inventory of our street trees has constituted a giant leap forward for our program.  We can now view our trees and their attributes using ArcGis mapping software.   However, tree attributes are not easily updated, we cannot easily produce reports reflecting the condition or composition of our trees, nor can we easily produce work orders from the inventory data.  Furthermore, we would also like a flexible suite of software options to assist in our management and care of the mature forest interface throughout our municipality.  We are currently researching options for map based tree inventory software that also has an integrated work management system.  So far I have looked into TreePlotter and ArborPro and both seem to meet most if not all of our needs.  Any information on your municipal experiences with these or other software would be much appreciated.

Thanks kindly,

Shane Tillapaugh

City of Courtenay
Acting City Arborist – Parks Div.
ISA Certified Arborist PN-5981A
ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified
Stillapaugh at courtenay.ca<mailto:Stillapaugh at courtenay.ca>
Tel. 250.338.1525
Cel. 250.703.6670
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