The USDA Forest Serivce and Parks Dept. of Springfield, MA created the
Mobile Community Tree Inventory System to allow arborists, tree managers,
city foresters and consultants to walk about their communities and gather
information on the locations and conditions of trees.
 The
System has been designed to allow the gathering of information with
the use of a PDA (Palm device) that is loaded with the
MCTI software,
or a Paper Tally sheet. Once the information is gathered, the data
from the PDA or Paper Tally sheet is uploaded to a desktop database
(which also contains the MCTI software) where it merges
with data gathered from previous uploads. Thus creating a central
database of all the trees within a community. |
