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Fixing all stand borders manually would have been far too expensive for MetsГ¤hallitus. Modern forest management with PDA's with GPS receiver (system provided by Arbonaut) and timber logging with cut-to-length harvesters set high requirements for the accuracy of stand borders.

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MetsГ¤hallitus' existing stand borders are inaccurate (old aerial images, bad ortho rectification, coordinate system change, manual digitizing etc.). LIDAR gives the 3rd dimension and thus delineation (classification) will be more accurate. In the future LIDAR data will be used also. Already existing data, like property borders and electric lines, are used as forced borders during the stand delineation process. In addition, usage of other GIS data is supported.

The inputs to the process are aerial images, with resolution of about 0.5 meters. uDig has proven to be good platform to develop these advanced editing tools and other plug-ins. In addition, new fast-to-use editing tools make it easy to edit the stand borders in the GIS system. The new tool from Arbonaut automatically performs stand delineation.

Traditionally stand delineation is done manually (hand drawing or using awkward editing tools of GIS system). They manage all the forest owned by Finnish government вЂ“ that is quite a big piece of land! Taaka is used to increase the effectiveness of forest management and planning. Taaka is used by MetsГ¤hallitus (Finnish Forest and Park Services). We had the algorithm, but we needed a modern GIS platform, which supports OGC standards. Arbonaut's image interpretation algorithm was utilized to automate the process of forest stand delineation. Arbonaut had the track record of producing remote sensing based forest inventory services. Using uDig as a framework, Arbonaut has built ArboGIS and Taaka, proprietary forest land management applications.ДЄrbonaut has had a long term customer relationship to MetsГ¤hallitus (Finnish Forest and Park Service) and they needed a new tool to increase the effectiveness of forest planning. Arbonaut вЂ“ Forest Management Applications Arbonaut is a Finnish technology company that develops information management and GIS solutions for managing forests and other natural resources.

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