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Getting The Most Out of a Plant Map Plant Collections Map Applications From Botanical Gardens Veronica Nixon, GIS Manager, Desert Botanical Garden ESRI USER CONFERENCE 2018 Listening to the butterflies? Making contact with the mothership? Soil moisture sensor? DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Listening to the butterflies? Making contact with the mothership? Soil moisture sensor? Survey GPS is frequently used by botanical gardens to create a full plant map. DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Botanical Garden 101 • Mission-focused: Botanical Education, Research, Exhibition, and Conservation • Accessioned plant collections • Plant database • Plant map DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Detailed plant collection maps DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN “How does your organization use your plant map?” Chicago New York Botanic Botanical Red Butte Denver Garden Garden Garden UC Davis Botanic Longwood Arboretum Gardens Gardens San Francisco Missouri Botanical Botanical Garden Huntsville Garden Desert Botanical Botanical Garden The Huntington Garden National Tropical Montgomery Botanical Botanical Garden Center DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Usage categories • Plant records management • Horticulture • Education • Construction • Collections reporting • Collections planning In the following slides, each category is described in turn and illustrated with two examples contributed by various botanical gardens and arboreta. DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Plant records management • Conduct plant inventories • Replace accession tags • Coordinate ID work • Sample plant material • Track living tributes • Support global research and conservation DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Saguaro Inventory Desert Botanical Garden • Field work recorded in Collector for ArcGIS app, project managed in ArcMap, data exported for archiving in Living Collections Management System plant database • Inventory and assess over 1,000 saguaros on 140-acre property and fully document newly- discovered juvenile saguaros • 18-month one-time project became 2-week sustainable annual inventory DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Garden Information Systems San Francisco Botanical Garden • Created in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS • Visualizes inventory status of every plant in garden. Pie chart shows proportion of plants in each inventory stage • Alternately displays inventory work completed over timespan of interest Image courtesy of Steve Gensler, San Francisco Botanical Garden DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Horticulture • Document new plantings • Organize pest control • Monitoring • Intervention • Coordinate arboriculture work • Health and hazard assessment • Tree pruning rotation • On-board new staff DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Horticulture Pin Map Desert Botanical Garden • Created in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS • Horticulture Department “pins” new/moved plantings that will be formally mapped and accessioned • Effective interdepartmental communication tool DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Emerald Ash Borer monitoring Chicago Botanic Garden • Maps created and queried in ArcMap • Utilized by Plant Health Care staff to plan Ash Tree treatment and removal, and to systematically monitor health of remaining trees • Figure depicts dramatic decrease in Ash Trees in plant collection before and after Emerald Ash Borer effect Image courtesy of Veronica Harry-Jackson, Chicago Botanic Garden DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Education • Plan tours and classes • Search plant collections • Publish Story Maps • Create TaleBlazer games DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN What’s in Bloom The Huntington • App created with Esri Story Map (Map Series) template • Visitors discover what is currently in bloom • View photos and navigate to plant locations throughout the gardens Image courtesy of Kelly Shunn, The Huntington DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Garden Games Red Butte Garden • Built with TaleBlazer augmented reality platform from the Michigan Institute for Technology (MIT) • Mobile, location-based games on garden grounds • Latest game coincides with seasonal Lego sculpture exhibit • Summer camp students create their own games DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Construction • Preparing plant salvage plans for City construction permits • Orchestrating movement of plants while keeping data intact • Designing and digging safely around existing plants and root zones • Identifying impacted plants early before design changes become costly DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Heritage Garden salvage plan Desert Botanical Garden • Field checks completed using Collector for ArcGIS app, data organized and mapped in ArcMap and exported to .dwg for final layout by landscape architect • Salvage plan for construction permitting • 1,400 plants assessed and documented for Heritage Garden construction DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Waterway Enhancement Project UC Davis Arboretum • ArcGIS, linked to IrisBG plant records database, was used to generate plant maps which were printed and used in the field • As plant collections were transplanted, maps ensured that correct accession number and taxon name were kept with each plant specimen during move Image courtesy of Angelica Sauceda, UC Davis Arboretum DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Planning & reporting • Disaster planning & recovery • Landscape-level collections planning • Reporting to: • Board of Directors • USDA • Accreditation bodies • Plant Collections Network • American Alliance of Museums DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Sea level rise modeling Montgomery Botanical Center • Analysis carried out in ArcMap using a digital elevation model and contour map in conjunction with plant collections map • Modeled impact of sea level rise on plant collections • Calculated percentage of property and collections that will be submerged • “Half-life:” Can Botanic Gardens Weather the Climate?” Image courtesy of Patrick Griffith, Montgomery Botanical Center DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Taxonomic diversity map Desert Botanical Garden • Heat map created in ArcMap • Visualizes areas of high and low taxonomic diversity • May be used to plan tours and exhibits, or to monitor and strategically increase diversity of plantings • Other meaningful enumeration areas include planting beds or thematic areas DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Future Directions • New ways for visitors to interact with plant collections through the plant map • Augmented reality • More spatial analysis • 3D tree shade modeling DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN 3D tree shade analysis idea • Plant collections shade analysis • Improve trail shading • Urban forestry • Please up-vote and comment on ArcGIS Ideas Forum Image: Shadow Impact Analysis Tutorial For ArcGIS Pro Analysis support: Esri Analyst Andy Shoemaker DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Resources & References • Sampling of public plant collections maps and tours • A Living Collections Management System (Missouri Botanical Garden and Desert Botanical Garden) • Missouri Botanical Garden Map Gallery (Missouri Botanical Garden) • Gardens Navigator (Denver Botanic Gardens) • Plant Explorer (Longwood Gardens) • Plant Finder (Chicago Botanic Garden) • Magnificent Magnolias on Explorer for ArcGIS app (San Francisco Botanical Garden) • Find Plants (San Francisco Botanical Garden) • What's In Bloom (The Huntington) • Garden Games on TaleBlazer app (Red Butte Garden) • Papers • Nixon, V. “Geodesign in the Desert.” ArcUser. Winter 2017: 66-69. • Griffith, P., Barber, G., Lima, J., Barros, M., Calonje, C., Noblick, L., Calonje, M., Magellan, T., Dosmann, M., Thibault, T., Gerlowski, N. 2017. Plant Collections “Half-life:” Can Botanic Gardens Weather the Climate? Curator: The Museum Journal. 60(4): 395-410. • Xiao, Q.; McPherson, E.G. 2005. Tree health mapping with multispectral remote sensing data at UC Davis, California. Urban Ecosystems 8: 349–361. • Alliance for Public Gardens (APGG) website and LinkedIn Group • American Public Gardens (APGA) Plant Collections Community (library and forum available to members) DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Thank you to all of the gardens that contributed ideas and content • Kayla Flamm, GIS Specialist, Missouri Botanical Garden • Kristina Aguilar, Plant Records Manager, Longwood Gardens • Angelica Sauceda, Plant Records Specialist, UC Davis Arboretum • Mary Burke, Director of Planning and Collections, UC Davis Arboretum • Steve Gensler, GIS Manager, San Francisco Botanical Garden • Dave Sivertsen, Gardens Technology Coordinator, The Huntington • Kelly Shunn, GIS Mapping and Interpretation Technician, The Huntington • Cindy Newlander, Associate Director of Horticulture, Denver Botanic Gardens • Veronica Harry-Jackson, GIS Specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden • Tracy Cook, Assistant Curator, Huntsville Botanical Garden • Kristine Paulus, Plant Records Manager, New York Botanical Garden • Ben Nyberg, GIS Specialist, National Tropical Botanical Garden • Patrick Griffith, Executive Director, Montgomery Botanical Center • Eddy Dawson, IT Manager, Red Butte Garden • Research and Horticulture staff, Desert Botanical Garden DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN Questions? 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