Computer Assisted Management of Urban Trees    (View PDF)

J. Alan Wagar and E. Thomas Smiley

Abstract: Commercial programs for computerized management of urban trees now offer the ability not only to retrieve, display, and summarize inventory and work records but also to compute tree values, map tree locations, track costs, develop profiles showing species performance, and to forecast future workloads. Computers are suited to such tasks as analyzing cost effectiveness, matching trees to sites, and guiding pest control. Computerizing is a commitment in management philosophy more than in time and funds and will normally save money. Before computerizing, however, you need to know your management objectives, how available software will meet them, the time until benefits are realized, and how to code data for greatest effectiveness in organizing and extracting information.

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https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1990.048