Documentation in botanic gardens/conservatories is an important matter. We propose a mehod using Total Station.
Total Station, commonly used in modern surveying, is a useful tool to document live collections in a garden. Total Station survey conducted at the Bambusetum of Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India and the contour map thus prepared is a permanent documentation of the bamboo live collections. This is found very convenient for research data collection, proper maintenance, further enrichment and future development planning of this Bambusetum. The advantage in this method is that it is easy to locate any individual tree or species in the area even if display labels are lost or the custodians of the collection are left. This method is cheap and the work can be completed in a few days. It is desired that all botanic gardens and arboreta have a Total Station survey map of their collections.
Koshy K. C., B. Gopakumar and K. P. Dintu. 2015. Total Station - A tool to map live plant collections. Indian Forester 141(4):473-474.
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