i-Tree Landscape and OurTrees FAQs

How can I build a custom Prioritization Index using i-Tree Landscape?

The Planting Prioritization set up in i-Tree Landscape offers three standard scenarios (prioritizing areas of high population density, high minority areas, or high poverty neighborhoods), plus an option to add and weight other data variables as desired (for example, prioritizing locations where pollution levels are high, where urban heat impacts are more intense, or where future precipitation levels are expected to change due to climate changes). All of these options can help you assess the distribution of tree benefits across your community and visualize where efforts to increase and maintain them could be most equitable and efficient.

Can I use my own GIS data to draw boundaries?

The i-Tree Landscape interface cannot accept GIS data on the fly and only works with preprocessed boundaries. In the future we are exploring ways to allow custom boundaries.

What boundaries is Our Trees using? Can I change them?

OurTrees is using US Census data defined boundaries from 2010 and cannot be changed at this time.

What year Census data is being used in OurTrees and i-Tree Landscape?

i-Tree Landscape and OurTrees are using 2010 Census Data. We are working on integrating 2020 data but there is no direct timeline on this yet as the Census bureau still has not released the necessary data at the block group level.

How can I go about submitting new land cover data my city has just gathered?

Please review the requirements and process for submitting high resolution data here. Note, that it takes a few months for us to integrate that type of data into i-Tree.