Designing and delivering an i-Tree Eco project

General Content

i-Tree Eco project overview

Designing and delivering your i-Tree Eco survey should include the following stages:

Planning

• Confirm study area boundaries
• Confirm choice and method of stratification
• Confirm plot numbers
• Confirm additional survey data
• Create project plan, create work allocation and budgeting plan
• Produce detailed draft timeline
• Write project methodology
• Prepare Risk Assessments and other Health and Safety measures
• Contract volunteers and/or professional surveyors

Preparation

• Set up the project in the i-Tree Eco software
• Distribute sample plots
• Prepare surveyor plot maps and data collection forms
• Prepare letters to homeowners

Fieldwork

• Train surveyors in field data collection
• Provide equipment to surveyors
• Fieldwork data collection is carried out by surveyors
• Monitor data input and quality assure collected data regularly

Data Analysis and Reporting

• Calculate ecosystem service provision using i-Tree Eco
• Note that the monetary values calculated by i-Tree Eco are specific to the United States. For UK studies:
  • Calculate the value of carbon storage and sequestration using the BEIS Valuation of greenhouse gas emissions guidance
  • Calculate the value of air pollution removal using Defra’s Air Quality Appraisal: Damage Cost Guidance
  • Calculate the value of avoided runoff using the volumetric charge for sewage or wastewater from the water supplier local to the study area
• Produce charts for report
• Produce report
• Publicise and disseminate the results

Contact

Kieron Doick

Support

Help with designing your i-Tree Eco survey can be found at the following:

i-Tree Tools website

i-Tree technical support team

i-Tree User Forum FAQ section

Useful sites

Treeconomics