Information systems in forestry

Information has always been an important "stock in trade" of forest managers. Knowledge of tree species, stand age, growth characteristics, site quality, soil and terrain classes, logging costs and products markets have all been essential for profitable forest management for many decades. What has c...

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Autor principal: Dykstra, D.P.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/17852
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description Information has always been an important "stock in trade" of forest managers. Knowledge of tree species, stand age, growth characteristics, site quality, soil and terrain classes, logging costs and products markets have all been essential for profitable forest management for many decades. What has changed is the technology for collecting, analysing and presenting this information, and particularly the speed at which this is done. Forest managers must understand the implications of information and new information technologies and how information needs will affect both the personnel and structure of their organisations. This article considers some emerging information technologies that are becoming important for many forestry organisations as tools to improve strategic and tactical planning and operations management and control.
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spelling CGSpace178522025-01-24T14:12:38Z Information systems in forestry Dykstra, D.P. information systems forest management information technology forestry Information has always been an important "stock in trade" of forest managers. Knowledge of tree species, stand age, growth characteristics, site quality, soil and terrain classes, logging costs and products markets have all been essential for profitable forest management for many decades. What has changed is the technology for collecting, analysing and presenting this information, and particularly the speed at which this is done. Forest managers must understand the implications of information and new information technologies and how information needs will affect both the personnel and structure of their organisations. This article considers some emerging information technologies that are becoming important for many forestry organisations as tools to improve strategic and tactical planning and operations management and control. 1997 2012-06-04T09:04:41Z 2012-06-04T09:04:41Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/17852 en Dykstra, D.P. 1997. Information systems in forestry . Unasylva 48 (189) :10-15. ISSN: 0041-6436.
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forest management
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Dykstra, D.P.
Information systems in forestry
title Information systems in forestry
title_full Information systems in forestry
title_fullStr Information systems in forestry
title_full_unstemmed Information systems in forestry
title_short Information systems in forestry
title_sort information systems in forestry
topic information systems
forest management
information technology
forestry
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