Management

GeoMaster is designed to store a wide range of information about forest area, crops and operations. The forest manager can track any operation or event in the forest and these can be linked to a financial management system. The progress of any operation from its initial plan, which may be recorded before the stand is planted, can be followed to its completion. The need for recording operations or events in a practical, commonsense way is provided by allowing an event to be associated with multiple stands, parts of stands, or even with areas that lie outside stands.

 Environmental

 The GeoMaster design takes into account environmental issues, such as recording active amounts of applied chemicals, and the ability to assess environmental attributes that fall outside the range typically used within forestry. Any natural event that affects the state of the forest can be recorded such as fire or windthrow, and Geomaster can record non-production areas as well as production areas with full area accounting.

 Flexible

GeoMaster is designed with the flexibility to incorporate any new types of attributes or events that could be required in the future. Nearly all picklists for attributes are user-definable, and most built-in attributes can be renamed to better reflect the operational environment for any given client. GeoMaster also provides a COM interface for users wanting to extract or update data programmatically.

 Reporting

GeoMaster has powerful reporting capabilities, both through its integration with ArcGIS and in its textual reports. Having selected stands which meet a range of conditions using the query tool, the results can be presented thematically as a map, or as detailed reports which describe all the activities those stands have undergone. Geomaster provides reports for presenting age class distribution and for describing all area changes within a selected area and period of time. There are also a range of system reports that check on the integrity of the database, and its links to GIS. Most reports can be exported to Excel^® to enable further analysis.