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Andrew Gordon
Andrew Gordon - Team Leader
Andy has worked in forestry since 1979 initially under the New Zealand Forest Service, then with the Ministry of Forestry, now with ATLAS Technology.Andy’s main areas of expertise are forest mensuration and management systems. At ATLAS Technology he is a senior software engineer, with special expertise in architecture and analysis. His recent projects include working as the architect and team leader for the development of a forest market-supply system with optimal planning capability. Andy applied his forestry and mathematics expertise as the domain expert for the design and development of the ATLAS Cruiser Forest Assessment system.
His major research and development achievements include; designing the ‘Cruiser’ forest assessment system, including new methods of stem description, consulting to Boise Cascade in a due diligence inventory of Eucalyptus plantations in southern Brazil, assisting with inventory design, implementation and software processes for analysis, developing local volume and taper equations for use in the inventory, developing a new form of 3-point volume and taper equation for Pinus radiata for the New Zealand Forest & Farm Plantation Management Cooperative, constructing a new Pinus caribaea growth model for Fiji Pine Limited, deriving a detailed and flexible system for predicting stem breakage on felling, designing a pre-harvest inventory assessment system for prediction of log yield, developing an integrated system for capture and analysis of pruning pre-assessment and quality control data, introducing specialised pre-harvest inventory techniques to Department of Forests and Wildlife, Hawaii, developing log scaling software for portable data recorders, customising stand inventory software for forest resource evaluation in Malawi, developed volume and taper equations for Pinus caribaea in Fiji and for Cordia alliodora in the Republic of Vanuatu.
Andy has a BA, Dip. Soc. Sci (Maths and Statistics), and N.Z.C.S. (Forestry).