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...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 13, 2013 | Cases, Foresters, Hardware, Ruggedizing, Uncategorized
Just ordered mine. We’ve been waiting for the mini version to come out. For those foresters who like chest packs, this is the one designed specifically for the purpose. $129.95 USD. I’ve spoken a couple times with Brian Saunders, the designer up in British...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 13, 2013 | Clients, Cultural Measurement, Ecological Data Capture, Foresters, GIS, Hardware, Instruments, Societies and Groups, Trade Shows, Uncategorized
Maddy and I visited the Society of American Foresters meeting down in Asheville, NC, showing Forest Metrix to a fairly sophisticated group. While there we met up with a client, John Culp, who flies remote control helicopters on the side, sometimes even in service of...
by Tig Tillinghast | May 10, 2013 | Cases, Foresters, Hardware, Instruments, Ruggedizing
A former forester up in British Columbia, Brian Saunders, came up with a brilliant chest pack for tablets. He started off with an iPad-sized one, and we called him up right away to ask about an iPad Mini-sized variant. It took him but a few weeks to make a prototype,...
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 | 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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