by Donn Downey | Sep 4, 2014 | Apps, Education, Southwest, Trade Shows
Forest Metrix be at the SAF/IUFRO/CIF/ABCDEFG conference in Salt Lake City this October. We’ll have a booth in the thick of the technology section- just look for the ESRI signs. We’ll be across the aisle! Donn will be giving a technology presentation at...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 23, 2014 | Apps, Business of Forestry, Cultural Measurement, Research and Studies, Uncategorized, Urban Forestry
Urban Forest Metrix released the results of a survey sent to a couple thousand arborists asking about their own local business conditions. The upshot? Demand in the industry is growing rapidly, but so is competition. A lot of facts came out of the study, such as which...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 23, 2014 | Apps, Business of Forestry, Mapping, Non-Forestry Uses, Regions, Research and Studies, Risk Assessment
Tree risk assessments are the single strongest growing category of business for arborists aside from tree healthcare. Urban Forest Metrix incorporates several easy methods to conduct risk analyses, including the one most used by arborists across the U.S. and Canada:...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 2, 2014 | Apps, Business of Forestry, Clients, Inventories, Mapping, Municipal, Non-Forestry Uses, Risk Assessment, Urban Forestry, Valuations
Urban Forest Metrix now lets arborists and urban foresters use both major methods for tree valuations. All of the math is done for you, and the condition ratings are tabulated via a slick interface, removing the need to tally up a few dozen criteria to get that...
by Donn Downey | Mar 25, 2014 | Apps, Australia, Business of Forestry, Canada, Cultural Measurement, Ecological Data Capture, Education, Forest Metrics, Foresters, GIS, Hardware, Instruments, Internet Access, Mapping, Mensuration, Mid Atlantic, Midwest, Non-Forestry Uses, Northwest, South, Southwest, Southwest, Trade Shows, Uncategorized
At last, Forest Metrix has developed a full-featured version for Apple’s iPhone! We were able to keep all the same features and analytics, and the interface is pretty slick. Some think it is even easier to user than the iPad version. One really neat part is that...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 11, 2013 | Apps, Business of Forestry, Foresters, Mensuration, USFS, Volumetrics
With the government shutdown turning off all of the federal websites, foresters could no longer download the USFS’s various software packages. Forest Metrix is helping solve this for the time being. It has been endeavoring to work closely with the USFS to make...
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