Introduction to Tree Management

Tree Management can be used to inventory publicly owned trees, streamline inspection and maintenance activities, understand conditions, and inform the public.

Publicly owned trees that line streets and dot parks are important assets and must be maintained like streets and sewers. These natural resources provide demonstrative environmental, economic, and social benefits to a community. They also play an increasingly important role in climate resiliency plans as communities attempt to mitigate the impact of extreme weather. The first, and most critical, step a local government must take to manage its urban forest is to create a tree inventory. A local government cannot effectively manage their urban forest and plan improvements unless they know how many publicly owned trees they have and where they are. Tree Management is typically implemented by public works departments, parks departments, and road commissions that want to develop a tree inventory, effectively manage their urban forest, and plan improvements.

The Tree Management solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you inventory publicly owned trees, conduct routine inspection and maintenance assignments, understand tree conditions, and inform the public.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Tree Management requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Enterprise
  • ArcGIS Notebook Server
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later
  • ArcGIS Workforce
  • ArcGIS Field Maps
  • ArcGIS Survey123 Connect
  • ArcGIS CityEngine (optional)

Information products

Tree Management includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type
Tree Data Management

An ArcGIS Pro project used by GIS technicians to develop a tree inventory from record information

Creator

  • ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension add-on
  • ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension add-on

Tree Field Map

An ArcGIS Field Maps map used by mobile staff to conduct a tree inventory and record inspection and maintenance activities

Mobile Worker

Tree Editor

An ArcGIS Sidebar app used by arborists to add or update trees and planting areas

Contributor

Tree Requests Internal

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by mobile staff to report requests for service

Mobile Worker

Tree Assignments

An ArcGIS Workforce project used by operations and maintenance supervisors to organize and manage field assignments

Contributor

Tree Management Center

An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by operations and maintenance supervisors and arborists to monitor tree conditions, manage requests for service and maintain a tree species roster

Contributor

Our Urban Forest

An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to learn more about the community's urban forest program

Not required

Tree Viewer

An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the general public to understand the condition of publicly owned trees in their neighborhood or around their homes

Not required

Tree Requests

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by general the public to report requests for service

Not required

Species Roster Notebook

An ArcGIS Notebooks app used by GIS technicians to update contingent and domain values on the Trees feature layer

Creator

3D Tree Notebook

An ArcGIS Notebooks app used by GIS technicians to create and update a scene layer used to visualize trees in 3D

Creator

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
2.0
  • Added support for planting areas
  • A new Tree Editor app used by arborists to add or update trees and planting areas
  • Added a tree species roster that can be used by organizations to manage an approved tree species roster by common name, family, genus, species, and cultivar
  • A new Species Roster Notebook app used by GIS technicians to update contingent and domain values on the Trees feature layer
  • A new 3D Tree Notebook app used by GIS technicians to create and update a scene layer used to visualize trees in 3D
1.2
  • A new Tree Data Management project to support ArcGIS Pro 3.1
1.1
  • A new Tree Data Management project to support ArcGIS Pro 3.0
1.0
  • First release of Tree Management