i-Tree 2015 UpdateTools for assessing & managing community forests

Scott Maco & Mike Binkley, The Davey InstituteDr. Dave Nowak, US Forest Service

Chris Donnelly, Connecticut DEEP

i-Tree: The Early Years

Public Domain Software

Based on peer-reviewed research

Technical support

Continuously improved

“Putting USFS Urban Forest science into the hands of users”

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i-Tree…

i-Tree is a Cooperative

Initiative among these partners

i-Tree Growth

User Breakdown

Many tools to quantify ecosystem services and values from trees at multiple scales.

Canopy

Landscape

i-Tree 2015 Today…

Demonstrate tree value on ALL lands

Assess the forest beyond public trees

Engage new audiences

Leverage resources to enhance community trees

Empower & create new allies & program advocates

Expand your influence & effectiveness

What’s New for 2016?

Growth, Mortality, & Influx Rates

Tree Cover Maps Landscape Change

Climate Change

Parcel-based analysis

Local SCALE Regional

Design

Landscape

Eco

i-Tree 2nd Generation

i-Tree Ecoversion 6

i-Tree is a Cooperative

Initiative among these partners

What’s New in i-Tree Eco version 6Modernized code base v5 – Microsoft VisualBasic6; 12 years old (UFORE)

More robust database Safer handling of values and calcs, more compact, less redundant Harder to read, but moving towards multi-user access

Updated mobile data collection via Smartphone web application Enhanced interface; more robust server interaction (re: data loss)

Reporting Cleaned up, more reports - especially for Inventory type projects

Revamped and expanded Help text Manuals, and right on-screen in the application

i-Tree Forecast New grow out modeling feature and results

New user interface Ribbon bar: no forms; no buried forms; step-wise project progression, start to finish Spreadsheet type editing

Improvements to i-Tree Eco version 6Comparison of major v5 and v6 actions: Graphic User Interface (GUI)

New Project Setup

Plot and Tree data editing

Mobile Data Collection (MDC)

Reporting!Development Team• Lianghu Tian• David Ellingsworth• Alexis Ellis• Allison Bodine• Satoshi Hirabayashi• Daniel Vicarel• Megan Kerr

GUI (version 5)

Improvements: GUI (version 6)

Project Setup (version 5)

Improvements: Project Setup (version 6)

Improvements: Project Setup (version 6)

Improvements: Project Setup (version 6)

Data Editing (version 5)

Improvements: Data Editing (version 6)

Improvements: Data Editing (version 6)

Improvements: Mobile Collection (version 6)

Improvements: Mobile Collection (version 6)

Reporting (version 5)

Reporting (version 5)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

Improvements: Reporting (version 6)

i-Tree Forecast: Simulating Forest Change

i-Tree Forecast: Simulating Forest Change

i-Tree Forecast: Simulating Forest Change

i-Tree Forecast: Simulating Forest Change

i-Tree Forecast: Simulating Forest Change

Next Steps: Eco version 7 (2016?)Bird habitat assessment

UV radiation reduction

Climate change species shifts

Other items:Pollen indexEuropean version

Are you interested in helping us with Eco v6 beta testing?

sign up at:www.itreetools.org/ecov6beta

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i-Tree Landscapeversion 1

i-Tree is a Cooperative

Initiative among these partners

i-Tree Landscape in a NutshellWeb browser delivery of: Tree benefits, Priority planting and Canopy goal setting tools

Use maps to focus down project areas. Provide commonly used map layers Simple & minimal map tools

Embed data processing. Pre-process where possible Run on-the-fly processing automatically Allow users to dynamically change parameters

Display results in detailed and easy to digest formats: Tables Charts Totals Export function

Development Team• Kevin Whalen• Alexis Ellis• Vid Steponavicius• Allison Bodine• Satoshi Hirabayashi

i-Tree Landscape in a NutshellWeb-based GIS Multiple map layers

- tied to -

Multiple database tables

- running - On the fly or as

preprocessed results - served -

Over the internet, through your web browser

i-Tree Landscape in a NutshellLocation Information canopy & impervious Census Demographics

Estimated Tree Benefits carbon, air pollution, water

Tree Planting Prioritization user-selected criteria

Consistent Interface: maps

selections progress

values

maps

progress

values

selections

i-Tree Landscape version 1

i-Tree Landscape version 2 (2016)Queries

New boundaries: Watersheds 30 meter resolution

New Layers: Roads Streams and waterbodies Human health effects from pollution removal Floods Invasive species Wildlife range maps Topographic Index Air Pollution Hotspots (O3, PM2.5) National Insect and Disease Risk Maps

Soils FIA Data Species change maps Protected Lands Heat Island maps Existing Wildlife Habitat Ecological corridors Wildfire hazard potential WUI maps

Dave Nowakdnowak@fs.fed.us

Chris Donnellychris.donnelly@ct.gov

Scott Macoscott.maco@davey.com

Mike Binkleymike.binkley@davey.com

You can access i-Tree Landscape version 1 at:

https://landscape.itreetools.org

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TechnologyWeb services we are providing:

GeoServer - provides WMS, WFS (generates the map tiles: PNG images from the map layers at different resolutions)

WebGeoCache - a spatial storage of already generated tiles PostgreSQL - relational database PostGIS - SQL based geographic operations Memcache-d - keeps generated webpages in the machines memory

Databases in use: Administrative boundary shapefiles MRLC NLCD rasters US Census i-Tree: Locations, Species, benefits, etc.

Software/Libraries (our application is primarily written in Python and JavaScript.) Python 3

• Django - running on Apache httpd through mod_wsgi• - also provides CSS and JS compression

JavaScript• jQuery• OpenLayers - map display• C3 and/or ChartNew.js• Twitter Bootstrap (JavaScript and CSS)• Modernizer

There are also many dependencies & configurations maintained on the machine to support GeoServer and PostGIS.