i-tree landscape and i-tree eco application updates
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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”
www.itreetools.org
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 [email protected]
Chris [email protected]
Scott [email protected]
Mike [email protected]
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.