For Prescriptions and Controls Related to Silvicultural Cutting Treatments of Commercial Timber

Effectively managing the forest and its resources requires reliable knowledge. Timber cruise let you acquire this knowledge (species, basal area, diameter, timber volumes, quality, age, etc.) to carefully guide your management decisions. The main steps in a cruise are: planning, execution (sample plan and field data collection), quality control of measurements, and data compilation and analysis. Consequently, the Timber cruise is absolutely necessary to ensure the continuity of the forest resource for the purpose of sustainable forest development.

Our EZTige automated timber cruise solution lets you enter dendrometric and descriptive data using a handheld. This solution has many advantages, including validation of data during entry to eliminate risk of error, automated compilation of summary results during data collection, display of spatial location of inventoried stems, sample plan transfer from the GIS, GPS record of the sample parcel's position, data entry under tough weather conditions, elimination of traditional paper forms and many more advantages.

The EZTige timber cruise solution for prescriptions and controls related to silvicultural cutting treatments of commercial timber can be used in all the different steps of a cruising campaign:

• For diagnostic timber cruises to briefly evaluate the forest resource and plan more accurate survey as needed;
• For pre-harvest cruises, including the operational cruise, to collect data on commercial timber and natural regeneration of a territory where specific silvicultural cutting treatments must be carried out in order to harvest a predetermined volume of timber;
  • standing stock (species, volume, quality, structure, class, etc.);
  • regeneration stock (presence/absence);
  • tree studies (age and height);
  • etc.
• For standard control and monitoring inventories: readback of timber marking and harvesting (post-cut) including respect of skidtrail spacing in partial cuts, used to verify the quality of the timber harvest and achievement of the silvicultural cutting treatment objectives.