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The
Alliance for Public Gardens GIS relies on grants and charitable
donations to fund our work, which in return helps the work of all public
gardens.
A summary of each of our funded projects is included below. For more information, please download the included documents.
GIS Training for Museum Professionals
The UC Davis Arboretum received a grant to develop, test, implement, and evaluate a geographic
information system (GIS) training program for professional staff at
public gardens and zoos.
Project activities, funded by the IMLS 21st
Century Museum Professionals grant program, will include an online guide
to GIS for beginners, training workshops, training videos and podcasts,
a training website, and a social networking site for participants. A
community volunteer training program will also be piloted that can be
replicated in botanical gardens and zoos across the nation.
The majority of the results from this project can be found in the Training section of the site as they become available.
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Tree Conservation Assessment
The UC Davis Arboretum received a grant to create a module of the ArcGIS Public Garden Data Model that
will provide users with the capacity of performing a comprehensive tree
conservation assessment using GIS.
This module will allow for the
capture of tree conservation assessment and related data that may affect
tree health such as soil chemistry, water
chemistry, and disturbance and impacts. The module will additionally
provide for the detailed tracking of tree maintenance history and will
be designed to work with existing enterprise asset management systems.
The module will be accompanied by a suite of analysis models that will
automate the calculation of key indices related to the health and value
of the collection. Functionality will be provided for running the
existing USDA Forest Service i-Tree models for assessing the
ecosystems services provided by collection trees.
The results from this project can be downloaded as the Tree Assessment Module of the ArcGIS Public Garden Data Model as they become available.
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Alliance for Public Gardens GIS
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2008 |
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Esri
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Seed Funding
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$30,000 |
Esri
has provided seed funding to establish the Alliance for Public Gardens
GIS (APGG). A portion of this funding was used to develop the Map
Gallery Special Display that showcased the important work of botanical
gardens and zoos at the 2008 Esri International User Conference.
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GIS Data Model for Plant Collections at Botanical Gardens and Zoos
The UC Davis Arboretum received a grant to develop, test, and release a geographic
information system (GIS) data model for botanical gardens and zoological
parks called the ArcGIS Public Garden Data Model. Esri
was a major matching partner on this grant, and provided software,
training, conference registration, consulting, and other resources to
the project.
The results from this project can be downloaded as the ArcGIS Public Garden Data Model as they become available.
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