i-Tree Eco services provided by Forest Research

Services offered

Training

• Using i-Tree Canopy and GIS tools for assessing Tree Canopy Cover (a very useful precursor analysis to a full i-Tree Eco study)
• Commissioning an i-Tree Eco Project
• Using i-Tree Eco version 6

Project Planning

• Designing your i-Tree Eco project including the project objectives, number of plots, the project timeline, audiences, media and dissemination of the report

Project Preparation

• Preparation of plot and survey sheets, issuing letters

Project Delivery

• Training you and your surveyors in the i-Tree Eco survey approach
• Fieldwork (we’ll conduct the surveying of your i-Tree Eco plots)
• Quality Assurance / Supervision (we’ll survey a percentage of your plots to validate your surveyors)
• Extended i-Tree analysis including (but not limited too) CAVAT Quick Method valuations, Building’s Energy Use Saving’s valuations and Urban Cooling valuations

Reporting

• A basic facts-and-figures technical report
• Extended and bespoke report – including all the essential facts and figures, plus interpretation, local contextualisation and layout and design options
• An Urban Forest Management strategy developed from the i-Tree Eco results

Project Support

• Ad hoc and case specific support to your Eco project, on a call-down basis

Contact

Kieron Doick

Useful sites

• i-Tree
• Treeconomics