AFRIDS

Leverage the power of lidar forest inventories to improve your operations

A web-based decision support tool offering advanced mapping, data analysis, and reporting tools for lidar forest inventories, with optional extensions for cost planning and route optimization, all accessible anywhere and requiring no GIS expertise.
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Forest-wide Inventory

Utilize the power of remote sensing, forest biometrics and artificial intelligence for wall-to-wall forest inventory predictions.

Better Planning

Quickly estimate important forest metrics, like volume and basal area, for a planned harvest, disturbance, or custom area.

Powerful Tools

Simplify your workflow with user friendly dashboards, powerful reporting, and easily integrated Esri services.

Access Anywhere

Forget the hassle of in-house IT with a secure solution that runs on industry-leading cloud technology.

Key features

Block Calculations

- Use existing blocks to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Calculate average and total metrics for multiple blocks in seconds.

Dynamic Block Calculations

- Draw a polygon block to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Display diameter size class distribution with a block. - Display piece size distribution within a block.

Easily integrates with other FMS or enterprise systems

- Integrate with your FMS or enterprise systems. - Integrated with non-Forest365 FMS via REST API. - AFRIDS can be deployed directly in Status to leverage EFI in for planning and monitoring.

Route Analyst

- Pick a starting point and destination, and calculate the best route based on time or distance. - See the cost of the route. - Adjust cost factors to see changes to route cost. - Leverage the route analyst tool to review and fix disconnected/broken road networks. - Add barriers to simulate road closers or non-suitable roads and recalculate the optimal route in seconds.

Cost Planning

- Build scenarios by allocating blocks to mills or other destinations. - Adjust cost variables to see impact on scenarios. - Adjust forest variables, such as seasonality, to see impact on scenarios.

Import, Export and Print

- Import and export Shapefiles. - Import and export CSV files. - Print digital maps based on map templates.

Key features

Block Calculations

- Use existing blocks to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Calculate average and total metrics for multiple blocks in seconds.

Dynamic Block Calculations

- Draw a polygon block to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Display diameter size class distribution with a block. - Display piece size distribution within a block.

Easily integrates with other FMS or enterprise systems

- Integrate with your FMS or enterprise systems. - Integrated with non-Forest365 FMS via REST API. - AFRIDS can be deployed directly in Status to leverage EFI in for planning and monitoring.

Route Analyst

- Pick a starting point and destination, and calculate the best route based on time or distance. - See the cost of the route. - Adjust cost factors to see changes to route cost. - Leverage the route analyst tool to review and fix disconnected/broken road networks. - Add barriers to simulate road closers or non-suitable roads and recalculate the optimal route in seconds.

Cost Planning

- Build scenarios by allocating blocks to mills or other destinations. - Adjust cost variables to see impact on scenarios. - Adjust forest variables, such as seasonality, to see impact on scenarios.

Import, Export and Print

- Import and export Shapefiles. - Import and export CSV files. - Print digital maps based on map templates.

Key features

Block Calculations

- Use existing blocks to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Calculate average and total metrics for multiple blocks in seconds.

Dynamic Block Calculations

- Draw a polygon block to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Display diameter size class distribution with a block. - Display piece size distribution within a block.

Easily integrates with other FMS or enterprise systems

- Integrate with your FMS or enterprise systems. - Integrated with non-Forest365 FMS via REST API. - AFRIDS can be deployed directly in Status to leverage EFI in for planning and monitoring.

Route Analyst

- Pick a starting point and destination, and calculate the best route based on time or distance. - See the cost of the route. - Adjust cost factors to see changes to route cost. - Leverage the route analyst tool to review and fix disconnected/broken road networks. - Add barriers to simulate road closers or non-suitable roads and recalculate the optimal route in seconds.

Cost Planning

- Build scenarios by allocating blocks to mills or other destinations. - Adjust cost variables to see impact on scenarios. - Adjust forest variables, such as seasonality, to see impact on scenarios.

Import, Export and Print

- Import and export Shapefiles. - Import and export CSV files. - Print digital maps based on map templates.

Key features

Block Calculations

- Use existing blocks to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Calculate average and total metrics for multiple blocks in seconds.

Dynamic Block Calculations

- Draw a polygon block to automatically roll-up EFI statistics. - Display diameter size class distribution with a block. - Display piece size distribution within a block.

Easily integrates with other FMS or enterprise systems

- Integrate with your FMS or enterprise systems. - Integrated with non-Forest365 FMS via REST API. - AFRIDS can be deployed directly in Status to leverage EFI in for planning and monitoring.

Route Analyst

- Pick a starting point and destination, and calculate the best route based on time or distance. - See the cost of the route. - Adjust cost factors to see changes to route cost. - Leverage the route analyst tool to review and fix disconnected/broken road networks. - Add barriers to simulate road closers or non-suitable roads and recalculate the optimal route in seconds.

Cost Planning

- Build scenarios by allocating blocks to mills or other destinations. - Adjust cost variables to see impact on scenarios. - Adjust forest variables, such as seasonality, to see impact on scenarios.

Import, Export and Print

- Import and export Shapefiles. - Import and export CSV files. - Print digital maps based on map templates.

Benefits for forest products companies and forest management consultants

Optimized Resource Allocation

Leverage your EFI data into tactical scheduling, machine allocation, and mill assignments to ensure the right wood reaches the right place at the right time.

Efficiency and Simplicity

Save time and streamline your workflow with repeatable and automated processes, reports that load in seconds, and user-friendly dashboards.

Versatile Applications

Utilize AFRIDS for a range of additional purposes, including stream crossing management, habitat management, and right-of-way planning.

Benefits for contractors

Simplify

Flexible plans

Choose the perfect plan for your business needs.
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FAQ

Lim Geomatics did not develop our lidar EFI (area-based assessment or individual-tree inventory). Can we still use AFRIDS?

Yes, absolutely. If it’s pixel-, polygon- or point-based, AFRIDS is ready to go.

When was AFRIDS developed?

The first version of AFRIDS was developed in 2011 for Tembec in Ontario, Canada.

How many hectares does AFRIDS power?

Over the years, AFRIDS has been used with over 30 million hectares (close to 75 million acres).

Can I view imagery over a time series?

Yes, with the Temporal Imagery tool, you can view inventory and imagery by year selected.

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Case studies

Case Studies
How AFRIDS gets the right wood, to the right mill, at the right time

The Cost Planning Module (CPM) applies all the valuable forest inventory statistics available in AFRIDS.

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