Data+Collection


 * Data Collection Assignments and Tracking**


 * //Manuals & Info//**


 * [|UFORE Model]
 * [|i-Trees User Manual]
 * [|UFORE Field Manual]
 * [|UFORE Species List]
 * Information gathered by the Tree ID Team

//**Data Sheets**//


 * UFORE [|Plot Data Sheet] :: UFORE [|Trees Data Sheet] :: [|Tree Height Supplementary Data Sheet] :: [|Unknown Tree ID Sheet.pdf]


 * [|Carry Letter] (login required)
 * [|Permit for Umstead Park] (login required)


 * Field Teams**

I used ability to ID trees in winter as the first split; then times available; then not sending two women out alone. The "third person" can float among teams as need. For example, if there are plots in places with a lot of trees, it might be good to send a three-person team out. We can work through this as it occurs.


 * __Knows trees__ || __TeamMate__ || __Notes__ ||
 * Trent || Sarah ||  ||
 * Mary || Trevor ||  ||
 * Bethany || Chris ||  ||
 * Lisa || Jody ||  ||
 * Hannah || Lee ||  ||
 * Evan || George || Give all highway and "dangerous" sites ||


 * //Issues / Questions from the field ://** Post any questions you encounter during data collection here
 * How will we deal with privet?

Liriope should be counted as herb/ivy.
 * How do we classify Liriope (monkey grass)?


 * **Dead trees** - dead trees within plots need to be counted if they are standing.
 * Calculate distance/direction to plot center, DBH, and height. Under CLE write "DEAD."

//**Assigning Plots**//

<> For assigning the plots, we took a hybrid, fluid approach, where we would look at the aerial photos for the plots in a particular area, and estimate how long it would take to get through each plot. We then put these plots together into "chunks", with each chunk having the number of plots you could do in the time alotted (a day), all of which were close to each other. (So you might have one tough one with one easy one, or 2 mediums and an easy, or 4 easy plots etc.) It's better to err on the side of giving too few plots to a chunk, or have contingency plots contiguous to these chunks, so you don't have to come back to the other side of the city to finish half a plot measurement. If a team runs out of time and can't do an assigned plot, they can return and do some adjacent plots to make things go faster or give that plot to the team covering the adjacent chunk, and then work out logistics at the end of the day. The "chunks" should be randomly allocated across the city, and a master map should be kept showing which plots have been done and which need to be done, to help prevent people driving past finished plots to get at unfinished plots, and from 2 teams doing the same plot. This approach allows for minimal transportation costs and time, (and thus more time measuring), and keeps things mostly randomized, but means all the teams have to have centralized planning and comms to coordinate when they do too few or too many plots in an area. If I'm not explaining clearly we can get together before, during or after lab so I can draw it out.


 * Plot Assignments and Status**

Link tracking spreadsheet here - someone needs to keep it up to date (is that Mary's job as data manager?)

Here is a link to an image which has all plots with labels: [|entire map.tif] [|entire map.bmp]