SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
FOR OPTIMIZED RESULTS
Since our founding in 1998, F4 has used cutting edge and proven technologies to help our clients make informed resource management decisions.
Forest, Landcover & Habitat Mapping
With millions of acres successfully mapped over the years, F4 continues to leverage the latest innovations in remote sensing technologies to help generate accurate resource maps for our clients. Our experience compiling and interpreting publicly available data, as well as data tasked specifically for a project, allow our foresters, analysts, and technicians to efficiently map any size ownership. Whether the need is for mapping stands, natural communities, landcover types, or important wildlife habitat, F4 has experienced and highly trained staff ready to meet your needs.
Forest & Natural Resource Inventory Cruise Design & Analysis
F4 has helped many clients by first carefully listening to what they want to achieve and then tailor a custom inventory design to meet those needs. Inventory data is just data until you can extract valuable insights from it to help you make management decisions. Combining inventory data with other spatial datasets can lead to even more meaningful insights. Let our team of forest and GIS analysts help you gain meaningful insights from your inventory and other GIS data.
Growth & Yield Modeling
Since forest inventory is at the heart of our core competency, it’s also important to integrate G&Y modeling to help keep inventory investments current and relevant. When projecting your inventory data into the future, our integrated process maintains product specifications, equations and volume compilation methods allowing direct comparison of volume and values between reports on original forest inventory and future projections. This integrated process also allows for increased control of the equations and inputs used in this process to more closely model on-site conditions for each individual client, even across large geographic areas. This provides for sound year-over-year comparisons that help guide management decisions.
Forest Management Planning
Do you need to answer critical questions about how to manage your forest resources to meet sustainable revenue and/or wildlife habitat goals? Do you need to consider tradeoffs between management decisions such as changing timber harvests timelines from short-term to long-term rotations? Let F4 help your organization navigate complex scenarios through utilizing the best available data, science, and innovations in optimization planning solutions
Advanced GIS Services & Analytics
Regardless of complexity, F4’s staff of GIS professionals can meet every challenge. Our company has experience adapting and utilizing geospatial, remotely sensed and inventory data to solve complex GIS problems. In the past we have conducted analysis that was used to interpret, project, and apply ecosystem modeling, such as habitat suitability modeling and machine learning classification methods. This gives our clients actionable information from their data on the effects of past and future management for their property. In addition, we are experienced in the use of more advanced remote sensing data, such as LiDAR and high quality multispectral or hyperspectral imagery, to identify areas of interest and estimate qualitative values on the landscape. As an Esri Silver-Level Business Partner, we have direct access to the resources needed for every project whether large or small. Have a technical question or need for GIS training? We can also help with that too!
Drone Data Acquisition/Analysis
Drones can be very useful in assisting you to meet your land/habitat management goals. Not only can they be used to create a ‘birds-eye-view’ of your property, but they can also be used in applications such as: up to date site inspections, acreage verifications, photogrammetry and quick access videos. Drones also provide the necessary data for our GIS analysts to compile and create custom maps and models of your property. Let us know today how any of our FAA licensed Drone Pilots can help you achieve your land management goals.
Custom Software Development, Configuration & System Integration
SilvAssist is configurable and flexible to meet your needs. However, every organization has its own unique set of challenges and requirements. F4 can work with you to gather requirements for any special needs you have and determine if the configuration of SilvAssist will meet your needs or if customization of the SilvAssist solution will be necessary. Our team of developers can meet the challenge of implementing tailored solutions to meet your needs. Many organizations have their own unique set of business systems. F4 can work with you to seamlessly integrate your data and summary reports from SilvAssist into other business systems.
