Independent Forestry Services' Forestry Mapping

The variety of accurate mapping options offered by IFS can determine skid sites, high-risk erosion areas, new roading networks and upcoming workloads.

Precise IFS forestry mapping is critical to ensuring quality investment management and assessing productive forestry areas.

Accurate mapping allows us to accurately price blocks and remove any inconsistencies in silviculture payments. It also allows IFS to finish crew audits and ensures adherence to all stocking prescriptions.

Quality IFS forestry mapping is essential prior to harvesting, providing valuable budgeting information and expected harvestable volumes.

The IFS mapping system lets IFS locate quality control plots. Using mapping software, and a combination of the plot GPS co-ordinates the IFS GPS equipment using grid overlays allows the uploading of the information into contractors' hand held GPS units. This increases accuracy when gathering stand samples.

Below Right: A typical Independent Forestry Services' map as provided to a contractor prior to starting work on any IFS forest, (click on the map to enlarge).

Below Left: An Independent Forestry Services' map produced on request using a link from the IFS forestry management software to the IFS mapping system. The map shows the last operation undergone on each compartment with some basic stand data collected by IFS, (click on the map to enlarge).

Far Bottom Left: An IFS map compiled for planning purposes and showing the forest harvest plan. This was prepared so that IFS could determine the location of skid sites and the best way to extract logs, (click on the map to enlarge).

Far Bottom Right: An IFS map produced for a planting consent application. The block is split into 2 categories, (those slopes less and greater than 20 degrees); allowing IFS to identify important high-risk erosion areas, essential to safe forming of a new forest roading network, (click on the map to enlarge).