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Meet Today’s and Tomorrow’s Information Demands Through a Single Version of the Truth for Forest Assets.

Managing precious forest assets with a collection of ‘pieces and parts’ technologies?  If so, it could be costing you:    

  • As pieces accumulate over time they become increasingly difficult to operate as a whole. 
  • Collections of different technologies struggle to new or changing information demands.   
  • Substantial time is put into moving information around manually.  
  • Hard-copy map and reports must be re-created each time plans or ground conditions change. 
  • Inventory is separate from harvesting when inventory is often triggered by harvesting.  
  • Getting timely and consistent answers is challenging.  
  • Systems are difficult to secure, operate and update, creating risks and costs.
Fragmented (pieces and parts) systems are slow and difficult to operate

Your data may have thousands of man-hours invested in it, why leave it to chance?

  • Information is an asset.  But within fragmented, pieces and parts systems, data investments are at risk
  • It’s imperative that information assets be secured and regularly backed-up but this is difficult to do in fragmented environments.  
  • Operating with fragmented, out of date systems isn’t worth the risk.  Organizations which experience data losses, hacks or ransomware attacks typically regret that they did not do something sooner. 
  • Capture (Data) once, use everywhere:  A Single Version of the Truth for Forest Assets is updatable from mobile, web and GIS apps and instantly reportable. 
  • Eliminate friction points in information processes for labor savings and improved quality of (work) life.    
  • End to end (field to office and back) workflows for all forestry workloads.  
  • Map, report and analyze expenses, revenue, plans, cutting activity and inventory in real time from anywhere.
  • Inventory and imagery are integrated with stands, tracts and treatments via Planet Labs imagery
Typically land records are separate from systems from inventory and forest management.  However, a change in ownership is integral to forest management and planning.  
 
  • Forest management planning uses the same tract data as land records. 
  • Instantly report silvicultural, inventory or harvest plan changes due to acquisitions or dispositions.
  • Tract documents such as deeds searchable by tract names and in web apps.
  • Access to up to date maps and land data by non-GIS users.
  • Streamline county tax payment processes.
  • Isolate mistakes tax bill to save tax expenses.
  • Eliminate handling the same information in multiple systems or files.
  • Science-based inventory methods which are defensible, repeatable and easy to use.
  • Consistent, defensible answers to daily operational questions.
  • Automated answers for each level of the organization without having to wait.
  • Reduction of lost time from one version of the truth for tracts, stands, inventory and treatments accessible from wherever work is being done.

Is  your IT department struggling to help you with GIS when GIS isn’t their thing? Are GIS and inventory staff working around IT?

  • Outsourcing web GIS and inventory allows organizations to reduce their attack surface to reduce the chances of monetary and data losses.  
  • A holistic, organization wide approach to GIS allows for a more unified experience for staff and improves security through a single login for all land related information.   
  • We work with IT staff to align with their standards and protocols for security, backups and protection of sensitive information. 

Why it’s important to use the ArcGIS and Microsoft Office 365 cloud based platforms:  

  1.  Our solution will always be up to date.  The primary components are maintained by Esri and Microsoft.  The advantages over custom software maintained by a vendor are many including security updates.
  2. The prevailing theme in business systems today is “Buy don’t build”.  Take caution if your vendor is coding specialized tools or processes which already exist in modern computing platforms.  Once you code it, you own it and the ownership costs add up over time.   
  3. Modern computing platforms provide endless working components out of the box which are actively maintained, and which be configured to fit operational needs, reducing ownership burden.     
  4. Cloud native:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/definitionSatellite Monitoring Image