Carleton University - School of Computer Science Honours Project
Winter 2021
Planters Handbook: Utility tool for tree planters
Sebastian Gadzinski
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ABSTRACT
After my second year of university at Carleton I was applying to jobs for the summer and one of those jobs was tree planting in British Columbia, recommended by my friend that lived in BC. My summer there was amazing and I made enough money to go back to school without taking any loans, and I did the same for the summer after. But the summer after I realized how much the industry can improve within technology. In tree planting, company’s give you handbooks to record your trees planted. These handbooks get torn apart during the season, which is super inconvenient when a paycheck comes in and you're trying to check if you got paid properly. This project focuses on creating a mobile application that contains a digital handbook replacing the paper handbook given to planters by companies. This application will give planters a much more organized and accessible handbook. Along with the handbook, I noticed that planters make bubbles in their land all the time, and that this can be fixed with GPS tree tracking. Tracking where your Planters have planted as a foreman is extremely crucial. If a planter makes a bubble, or some piece of land was not planted, this can cost the foreman a lot of money, from a hundred to tens of thousands of dollars. This application will contain GPS tree tracking in order to prevent the noted errors from occuring. Tree planters love coming back from work and bragging about who made more each day. So because competition is another thing that planters love, this application will have a statistics component.