Group Project: Ecological Analysis of Urban Trees

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Group Project Ecological Analysis of Urban Trees

• Use ArcView Extension (Software called
  CityGreen) 
• CityGreen 5 (ArcView 3.x platform)
• CityGreen for ArcGIS (ArcView 8, 9.x)
• 2. Develop GIS Database
• Digitize and generate shapefiles
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•         Tree Point shapefile
•         Canopy Polygon Shapefile
•         Landcover or Ground Cover Polygon
  shapefile
•         Building, Street, etc (Non-canopy)
  Polygon Shapefile

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Group Project

• Do On-field Tree Inventory and Site Survey
• 4. Input your field Data to your Database
• 5. Use generated GIS-database to do spatial
  analysis

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Objectives of Group Project

• Experiencing and Learning GIS without tutorials
• Developing databases and performing analysis
• Experiencing the work involving GIS,
  particularly field data acquisition and database
  generation

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What is CityGreen

• Software developed as an extension under ArcView
  3.x and ArcGIS platforms
• As an extension, it works and has the same (full)
  functionalities as ArcView.
• CityGreen 5 (Extension for ArcView 3.x)
• CityGreen for ArcGIS (Extension for ArcView 8,
  9.x)

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What Can CityGreen do for you?

• Do ecological analysis on the environmental
  services
• trees provide

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Sample Report
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Sample Report