Planning and Data Collection

Modernize your forest inventory

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Increasing awareness through responsive workflows

Improve tree growth and forest health monitoring with automated data processing and analysis

Modern forestry organizations are making mobile operations and planning more efficient with GIS. Collecting field and remotely sensed data and analyzing it in near real time using performance dashboards helps leaders model complex workflows, accelerate response times, and reduce costs. Use location technology to manage your forest inventory and resources more precisely while improving quality and customer satisfaction.

  • Update processes for inventory

    Replace the outdated workflows that foresters traditionally use to perform timber cruising, conduct silviculture assessments, and inspect assets with efficient and easy-to-use mobile applications for collecting and recording field measurements and observations.

  • Bring depth to your analysis

    Integrate spatial and business data to better understand current forest conditions and trends while leveraging powerful tools for data exploration and spatially sensitive analytics.

  • Fuse business intelligence into plans

    Revolutionize enterprise decision-making. Empower forest managers across all departments to make more informed decisions using business intelligence workflows with impactful visualizations.

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Gain insights through data

Data collection in the field

Use integrated field apps to collect detailed information at the source, often remotely. Enable a combination of form fills, rapid observation collection, and Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data to create a foundation of current field knowledge that improves awareness.

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Data management

Integrate a wide variety of data from multiple sources that supply insight into complex workflows. Provide access, analysis, and visualization capabilities to the entire organization via web services.

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Mapping and location enablement

Provide sophisticated mapping and location analysis capabilities to create new spatial insights, improve critical decision-making, and support long-term sustainability.

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ArcGIS BLOG

Manage forest harvest and chemical activities

Forest managers use mapping to track forest assets, environmental compliance, and associated activities to effectively manage costs and needs.

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Products for planning and data collection

  • ArcGIS Pro

    Next generation desktop GIS

    Use analytical tools to identify patterns, make predictions, and share information across your organization, online, and through mobile apps.

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  • ArcGIS Online

    Mapping and analysis for everyone

    Work with smart, data-driven styles and intuitive analysis tools that deliver location intelligence, and share your insights with others.

    Explore ArcGIS Online

  • ArcGIS Field Maps

    All-in-one app for mobile work

    Data-driven maps help mobile workers perform data collection and editing and report their real-time locations.

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  • ArcGIS Image Server

    Analysis for massive collections of imagery

    ArcGIS Image Server provides a fast, efficient way to process, analyze, and share imagery products enterprise-wide.

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  • Site Scan for ArcGIS

    End-to-end cloud-based drone mapping 

    Stay up-to-date with accurate imagery when you need it with repeatable flight plans that ensure high-quality data capture.

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