Tree Alert App - Obvious Tree Risk Features

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Can you help everyone manage tree risk?

 

We're after high quality obvious tree risk feature photos for a free multi-language App we're developing called Tree Alert. Full credit will be given to you as the photo source.

 

What is Tree Alert?

It's an App version of the free Obvious Tree Risk Features Guide.

 

 

You can download the guide here.

 

https://validtreerisk.help/Risk-Management

 

Here are wireframe sketches of how Tree Alert is currently looking.

 

 

We're after high quality photos of:

1) Partial root failure

2) Broken or hanging branches

3) Cracks or splits

4) Advanced decline or death

5) Fungal brackets (an abundance of them)

6) Construction damage

 

As you'll see from the Guide, they need to VERY obvious.

 

If you can help by sharing any of these photos, please email them to [email protected]

 

Why?

Trees with the highest risk are the easiest to find.

 

When a tree has a risk that might not be Acceptable or Tolerable, it'll usually have an obvious tree risk feature that you can't help but notice.

High volume lower quality citizen science tree risk assessment is most likely to pick up 'red risk' trees before any scheduled visit from a trained Arborist carrying out 'Active Assessment.'

In VALID's free Tree Risk-Benefit Management Strategies, this is called 'Passive Assessment'. Passive Assessment is a duty holder's most valuable risk management asset because it can be done by anyone and it's going on day in day out.

 

How?

Tree Alert will be used by members of the public and trained Basic Validators to alert duty holders or contact Arborists that they've seen a tree that might be 'dangerous'. The App user will be able to check what they're looking at against a rogue's gallery of obvious tree risk features. If it matches one of them, they geolocate the tree and take several photos of the tree in its setting, and of the obvious tree risk feature.

 

The duty holder or contact Arborist will then get an alert with where the tree is and photos. A trained Arborist can then swipe right if they 'fancy' the tree and it needs a closer look, or swipe left if they reject the alert because it's not an obvious tree risk feature. Each alert will produce a brief photographic driven one-side report that will stand as a record of the alert.