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WebFRIS Enterprise™ GIS

Resource managers have too often settled for marginal improvements in information systems, following expensive and challenging upgrades. Further, they struggle to balance the costs and distractions of proprietary systems with the demands and realities of their core mission. Now, the gains in efficiency and productivity brought to many other applications by the Internet are available for forestry. The entire organization can view a standard interface to its forest information system. Local managers access information they need for tactical decisions. Strategists have access to a common database, updated by models they understand and sanction, to perform analyses that will shape the future of their resource management. Administrators easily aggregate information for enterprise-wide reporting. The WebFRIS™ solution changes the way users share, analyze and utilize information.

The WebFRIS™ GIS Solution WebFRIS™ GIS is a real-time, web-based, enterprise solution for the management of forest resource information. The system extends the power of GIS throughout an organization with only a standard web browser, eliminating the need for much specialized hardware and software. It significantly reduces the need for internal technical support, so those skills can be redirected toward value-added analyses for better business decisions.

Combining maps, aerial imagery and forest data, WebFRIS™ GIS enables managers to visualize and report on the present condition of resources, the effects of future management plans, and past performance. WebFRIS™ GIS provides the ability to:

• Manage forest inventory data on a centralized platform
• Collaborate with real-time processing
• Edit spatial and tabular data in real time via the web
• Define appropriate rights and privileges for each user based on a role and privileges
• Develop forest management plans and accumulate information to facilitate and monitor budgets
• Prepare analyses rapidly using logically layered data, with feature identification and comprehensive reports on selected features
• Identify, query and report on stand history
• Create, edit, query, and report on planned and completed silvicultural activities including site prep, regeneration, chemical, fertilization, pruning, burn, miscellaneous treatments, and more
• Create, edit, query, and report on harvest and regeneration activities
• Batch create, edit, and delete planned silvicultural activities
• Upload and maintain stand level inventory
• Analyze and report on timber sales, inventory removals, and land sales
• Inherent business logic and rules that ensure the data remains topologically correct and saves time for users
• Upload and download shapefiles, compatible with other GIS applications
• Create and print standard and thematic maps to scale with customized legends, annotations, and customized symbology
• Invoke useful standard report formats or create on the fly adhoc reports. Export reports to a variety of formats.
• Receive data exports in shapefile and standard database formats
• DOQQ and DRG imagery provided for the entire United States. Custom imagery can be included through web mapping services (WMS) technology.
  
  For more information, contact David T. Edson, LPF, Executive Vice President and COO at (800) 648-4202; E-mail: edson@jws.com

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