GIS / Aerial Photo Consulting

Coastline Forestry Consultants have been working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the forest industry for over 10 years. Originally our focus was on obtaining basemap information (e.g. roads, streams, contours, DEM, etc.), selecting appropriate GIS software (e.g. ArcInfo, ArcView, MapInfo), and organizing everything into a working GIS solution.

Since most companies are now actively employing basic GIS, our focus has shifted to advancing the use of new technologies to help solve old problems.

Ortho-correction of aerial photos

One of the age-old problems in forest inventory has been the transferring of timber typelines from uncorrected photo prints to the final inventory basemap. Ortho32^® is an affordable software product developed by Digital Mapping Systems Pty Ltd that is fast, easy to use, and results in ortho-corrected imagery that can be displayed in your GIS with typelines included.

Ortho32^® is supported and distributed by Coastline Forestry Consultants.

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Custom ortho-corrected aerial photography

Another problem that inventory foresters have is the need to regularly update timber type basemaps to reflect recent harvest activity and road construction. Coastline Forestry Consultants has teamed up with Eagle Images of Corvallis, Oregon to provide low-elevation orthophotography that produces custom digital orthophotos for about the same cost as regular black-and-white prints.

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