What We Do

Our Technical Services Group evolved out of individual employees who stepped forward to support forest operations managers and appraisal staff when unique, frequently technically challenging problems presented themselves.  The skills and specializations that developed soon lead to a diversified staff of individuals with a track record of increasing workflow efficiency and solving complex problems.  The Technical Services Group monitors, evaluates, and implements a wide array of hardware and software technologies applying them to problem solving as well as traditional work. Data and processing outputs are conveyed in visually compelling, often interactive, narratives that exceed expectations and empower confident decision making.

The Technical Services Group works in the arenas of forest management and timberland real estate concerning:

Geospatial Solutions

• Cloud based GIS
• Automated editing processes
• Data mining of digital image products including satellite imagery and LIDAR point clouds
• Forest stand and strata delineations
• Field use of GIS
• Spatial and tabular analysis
• Custom application development

Forest Inventory Design and Implementation

• Sample size estimates and inventory designs to meet client objectives
• Implementation of forest inventories in support of management decisions, third party verification, forestland real estate appraisals, and carbon offset projects.
• Develop custom inventory processing and reporting programs
• Third party evaluation of existing inventories

Process/Software Development

• Schema translation between buyer and seller datasets
• Develop processes and/or customized software that manages data creation, manipulation, transformation, and reporting

Biometrics

• Develop growth and yield rates
• Data transitions to and from modeling software