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Acknowledgement
This project was supported by the Urban & Community Forestry Program of the U.S. Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture State & Private Forestry, Region 8 (Atlanta) under cooperative agreement 
[14-CS-11330144-078] between Georgia Tech and the USDA Forest Service (Urban Forestry South, Athens, Georgia) 

Project Title
Data Model for GIS Database Management and i-Tree Eco

Project Period
8/15/2014 - 12/18/2015

Project Team 
Rama Sivakumar (PI), Senior Research Engineer, Center for GIS, Georgia Tech
Ryan Bowman, Graduate Student
Manasvini Sethuraman, Graduate Student
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The project is divided into four folders;

-instructions
	This folder contains two tutorials for using the i-Tree Eco Geodatabase and the Python Tools developed, and pdfs with example maps for visualization of the i-Tree Eco results. 
	1. "Tutorial - iTree Eco Geodatabase.pdf" is a step by step instruction manual for establishing and using the iTree Eco geodatabase provided
	2. "iTree Eco Python Tools.pdf" is a step by step instruction manual for using the python tools developed for transferring data between this geodatabase and the i-Tree Eco software.
	

-tutorial
	This folder contains the data (geodatabases) supporting the tutorials.


-dbtools
	Contains the toolboxes and the scripts that support the toolboxes. Refer to the instructions in the tutorial to set up the tools.
	There are three tools within the dbtools toolbox, which correspond to the three steps involved in the process of integrating the results produced by iTree with the data in the geodatabase. 
	The tools are desctibed below:

	1. Create MS Access database: Creates the MS Access database, taking the folder and database names as parameters. The associated script is db_create_script.py
		
	2. Populate MS Access database: Transfers data from geodatabase to the MS Access database created by db_create_script.py, taking the name of the Access Database and the geodataset as parameters. Produces an error log consisting of erroneous entries, along with reasons for the error. The error log is of the format geodatabase_name_error_log.csv. The associated script is load_access_database.py

	3. Get data from iTree for displaying: Transfers data from the i-Tree results database into the geodatabase, taking in the name of the i-Tree results database and the initial input geodataset as parameters. The associated script for ArcMap 10.1 is getdata10_1.py, and the script for ArcMap 10.2 is getdata.py


-Geodatabase
	This folder contains a blank geodatabase the has been developed to contain fields with domains that are compatible with the i-Tree Eco software.

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