- 1Getting startedSign in, build your first template with the Setup Wizard, and learn your way around the Projects screen and Project Home. By the end of this chapter you will have created a project and understand the nuts and bolts.
- 2ProjectsChange a project’s details, record notes, make copies to experiment with, and put finished work away.
- 3Stands and boundariesDefine the project area, lay out a cruise grid, and stratify stands. This chapter covers the project boundary, plot layout, and drawing and importing stand boundaries. All of this can be done in a web browser, where a big screen and a mouse make it easier than on the phone.
- 4PlotsUnderstand how plots are managed, add plots by hand, understand where plot locations come from, navigate to plots with the map, and bring in plots created elsewhere.
- 5Tallying treesTally trees by plot or as a 100% inventory: species, DBH, any fields you track, then the products up the stem. This chapter covers each tally method, the optional fields, the limiting-distance calculator, double sampling, 100% tallies, Voice Tally and finishing a plot.
- 6Plot dataSetting up non-timber data: photos, notes, regeneration, snags, coarse woody material, and the custom fields, checklists and tables you need.
- 7Maps, GPS and offlineNavigate around the property with the project map, mark waypoints, record tracks, and download maps to the phone before you lose signal. Mapping and GPS tools are part of Pro and Max. For planning in the office, the same map opens in a web browser.
- 8Reports and statisticsEvaluate the data: volume and value by product and species, stocking and stand density, sampling statistics, and ecological reports. Every report can be customized, printed, shared or exported.
- 9Import and exportExport all your data (a complete Excel workbook, GIS files, plot photos, and files for USFS planning software) and bring data in: spreadsheets from other cruises, georeferenced maps and topo quads.
- 10TemplatesA template is your standard setup (sampling method, species, products, prices, tally method and the data you collect), saved once and used to start every new project. This chapter covers managing your templates and the settings they hold.
- 11SettingsWhere every setting lives: what belongs to the project, what belongs to your account, and what stays on this phone, plus the settings that don’t have a home in another chapter.
- 12Sharing, organizations and syncJoin forces with any Forest Metrix user, inside or outside your organization. Understand how everyone’s work comes together through sync, and use the Office pages in a browser.
- 13Account and devicesYour login, your seat on the account, your subscription, and your devices.
- 14Help and supportWhere to find help inside the app, how to reach Forest Metrix, and what to try first when something isn’t working.
- 15The Office pagesForest Metrix at your desk: keep your clients’ contacts and properties in order, bring in a cruise from a spreadsheet, and write a Vermont UVA management plan that fills itself in from the field data.
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