by Tig Tillinghast | Mar 31, 2013 | Apps, GIS, Hardware, Instruments, Uncategorized
We’ve been developing the Forest Metrix timber inventory app to be Windows compatible all along, so we bought a Surface Pro, loaded the forestry app, and it ran without a hitch the first time. The new Microsoft Surface Pro is essentially a little PC running...
by Tig Tillinghast | Mar 31, 2013 | Foresters, Hardware, Instruments, Landowners, Navigation, Non-Forestry Uses, Ruggedizing, Uncategorized
The Ipega waterproof iPad Mini case appears to work well, even passing the hand-it-to-your-two-year-old-in-the-bathtub test, which says something. If it can do that, it can handle forest inventories. It does not appear to be as hardy as a case as, say, the Otterbox...
by Tig Tillinghast | Feb 17, 2013 | Hardware, Non-Forestry Uses, Riparian, Ruggedizing
We’ve relied on cases like the Lifeproof case for waterproofing in the past, but there’s a new technology out that infuses waterproofing throughout the electronics at a molecular level. You can see it at liquipel.com. We’re sending a couple units out...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jan 23, 2013 | Business of Forestry, Trade Shows, Uncategorized
Our first graphic came in for the background for our launch tradeshow booth. Our focus group of one exclaimed, “It’s huge” over and over again. So we know the size is appreciated, but, then again, she’s under three feet tall. We will be...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jan 19, 2013 | Apps, Cultural Measurement, Ecological Data Capture, Forest Metrics, Foresters, GIS, Hunting, Instruments, Internet Access, Invasives, Landowners, Mapping, Mensuration, Navigation, Non-Forestry Uses, Research and Studies, Riparian, Uncategorized, Volumetrics, Wildlife
Inevitably, as we collected footage of foresters using the system, we collect, well, bloopers. Here are some shots from the few hours we spent outside shooting our introductory video… ...
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