Orihuela’s Councillor for the Environment, Manuel Gallud, has introduced a new computer application that will individually map and allow the monitoring of every single palm tree in the region.
He said that hiring a software developer has enabled the council to produce a Monitoring and Control plan which will allow his staff to better target maintenance and any necessary treatment where it is specifically required.
Each palm will be recorded in a council database showing exact location, age, height and girth, as well as its health and condition with specific reference to any blight or infestation that it might be suffering.
The intention was that this plan will quickly become "a functional and dynamic framework that will allow staff to prioritise their actions enabling far better allocation of resources, equipment and manpower," said Gallud.
The idea of a ‘Palm Map’ was first attempted by Orihuela Council back in 2006 when the authorities approached the University Miguel Hernández to build a Palm geolocation system.
However the procedure was not completely developed. But now building on that initial proposal, using much of the information originally compiled, a new database has now been developed which will allow better preservation of the region’s Palm trees by way of up to date information.
To implement the programme workers will carry a digital tablet on which they will have access to the application. As they deal with a specific palm they will be able to geotag each tree and report it’s status, the details of which will be automatically updated in the base program.
This will allow better coordinated actions in the treatment and maintenance of Palms by those operating the Department based system, especially with the treatment of pests", said Gallud.
The company that developed the application will now spend the next two weeks training municipal staff on the operation of this new system.
This will be the first phase of the implementation of a groundbreaking system that will control future parks and gardens and all woodland in the municipality.
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