GPS plotting young trees

Sounds like a good idea, though I wonder how they used to water the trees back when our magnificent urban forest was young.

We have a first world water distribution network and we’re going to cart 13000 tonnes of water per annum on dirty co2 emiting trucks?!

I can’t speak for PCL but The way it works with contractors is they are paid a certain amount of money to look after each young tree including maintaining the small wells around them to retain water, mulching and watering. It is left to them to schedule these activities and the only check is small random sampling performance monitoring on a monthly basis. I understand though that PCL’s tree surgery section has now retaken responsibility for all young trees in the ACT.

alaninoz said :

Are they currently over-watering, missing trees or what?

That’s probably the point of setting up the system – they don’t really know. In reality it will probably just be an accounting tool but the data may be useful for doing some interesting GIS analysis.

alaninoz said :

Nothing really new here. GPS has been used in precision farming for several years now.

yep, +1.

Nothing really new here. GPS has been used in precision farming for several years now. Would be interested in the cost of setting this up and in the expected benefits. Are they currently over-watering, missing trees or what?

You can lead a local government sub-contractor to young trees but you can’t make them water.