Dead DBH

[jess-shue]

Hi @teixeirak, How would you like dead DBH to be collected? Speaking with Valentine this morning, we were thinking that DBH for dead standing trees could be collected in the same column as the DBH for living trees - that way people wouldn't have two places to enter DBH no matter the stem's status.

I know typically dead trees were not measured at most sites, but at SERC we have measured any standing stem even when dead and kept that DBH in the same column. Attempting to have a more stable version of the tables for Valentine and having the app as ready as I can soon.

[ValentineHerr]

Hey @jess-shue, @teixeirak and I just talked and decided that we should measure the DBH of dead trees in the main census, like you do at SERC. That way you can just populate the dbh_if_dead field in the backend. Does that sound good to you?

[jess-shue]

@ValentineHerr Perfect, so just to clarify: there will be a dbh_2023 field where DBH will be entered living or dead, and no dbh_if_dead field - you can make that with your code?

I could probably make it populate within ArcGIS, just have to add that to my 'to-do' list.

[ValentineHerr]

Correct,

Please add it to your to-do list and let me know if you don't manage to get to it (along with the other things that I should be aware of), so I know I need to code it. (It is fine if you don't even try to get to it, it is mostly a backup for me, so I don't forget about this).

Thanks!

[jess-shue]

@ValentineHerr Just an update on this: at this point I'm not going to worry about populating the dbh_if_dead field. I think it is do-able for the app, but I want to focus on getting the other aspects correct and if it isn't too difficult to do on the back-end that may be easier.

[ValentineHerr]

no worries

[ValentineHerr]

I coded so the dbh_if_dead is populated from the census dbh We need to make sure the deb is recorded regardless of the status of the tree.

Closing this issue now