GIS for Forestry

 

Solutions Guide

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Forestry consultants offering knowledge-based services to private landowners and government agencies benefit from using Esri and partner solutions to streamline such tasks as timber sales, appraisals, forest management plans, timber cruising, and more.

Featured Solutions

PurVIEW is a product of I.S.M. International Systemap Corp., a 20-year veteran in photogrammetric workstation technology with a product base spanning 60 countries. I.S.M. product philosophy has fundamentally transformed mapping industry practice in many market regions.

In 2004, I.S.M. reengineered its well-proven CAD-based photogrammetric technology for an ArcGIS direct approach, anticipating the nascent but inevitable GIS-direct mapping evolution. PurVIEW was an immediate success upon its launch in 2005 and is now distributed worldwide exclusively by Esri Canada Limited.

ENVI from ITT Visual Information Solutions helps foresters around the world use geospatial imagery to quickly get the information they need. ENVI provides foresters in government and private organizations with easy-to-use, automated tools for performing advanced processes on hyperspectral, multispectral, and panchromatic data.

ENVI users can directly access ArcGIS geodatabases to obtain both raster and vector imagery, seamlessly integrating the image processing chain with the typical daily workflows of the forestry professional.

Déjàvu3D from Lenné3D is a cutting-edge foliage solution for 3D GIS from Esri. Déjàvu3D for ArcGIS, a plug-in to the Esri 3D Analyst extension, adds powerful interactive 3D plant visualization capabilities to ArcGIS for Desktop.

The plug-in comes with Lenné3D's plant-rendering engine, intensively tested in research, forest, and landscape visualization projects, and provides access to Flora3D plant models for symbolizing point features in both the 3D ArcScene and ArcGlobe displays. Installation of the plug-in adds a Déjàvu3D toolbar to both applications. It is very easy to use and available for free download at lenne3d.com.

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