My position includes working closely with both the Forestry and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Departments in order to complete an electronic inventory of all Right-Of-Way boulevard trees. Before starting the project, I trained with the City of Welland Arborists in the skill of identifying and distinguishing different native and cultivated tree species, using multiple tree characteristics such as; leaf detail, tree structure and bark texture.
I begin my day in the office, where I use several different layers (street labels, address labels and parcel boundaries) combined with aerial imagery in Manifold System in order to plot point features and display them on a map. Each of these point features represent a tree.
