Abstract

Vegetation Management near Power Lines
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: Simon Gee

Brockwells Forestry manage the clearance of vegetation from over 6,000 miles of powerlines in South East England. At each stage of their workflow, data was being collected in a variety of systems and formats. A range of applications, tools and processes have been developed based on ESRI technology.

Key requirements were ease of use, appropriate levels of technology, flexibility for rapid change and value for money.

This was achieved through development of bespoke applications and processes utilizing: ArcGIS with GeoProcessing models for data preparation, analysis, work planning and map production; ArcPublisher/ArcReader for distribution of network and land ownership data; ArcPad for mobile and office based data capture and Python GeoProcessing Scripts for automated processing of incoming data, run as scheduled tasks

The end result is suite of tools that require minimal user input to produce data for each stage of the work flow and facilitate timely reporting and data submission.