Next, the newly collected points are matched with the rest of the GIS database to see whether they are within an already existing site or a new core.  A "new site" (a term we don't like to use but sometimes have to) is created when locational waypoints are roughly greater than 2 kilometers (km) from any known source tree.

There have been 93 sites defined on Hawaii so far.  Some of the sites turned out to be misidentified plants, but most of them are confirmed Miconia sites.