Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

LP's Swan Valley Forest Resource Division has an advanced Geograhic Information System. GIS is the computer software that LP uses to map and analyze geographic and vegetation features in the forest. Data that LP uses in our GIS include:

• Forest inventories
• Wildlife
• Ecological
• Operational
• Topographic data
• Other environmentally based information

LP uses a GIS to perform, plan and process management, road management, survey data capture and obligation tracking.

Woodlands - The System ®

Woodlands - The System seamlessly blends a powerful data and technical infrastructure with fully integrated GIS desktop applications to deliver a system that manages the information flow for all facets of forestry operations at LP Canada. The WtS suite helps track and manage the forest supply chain. Modules targeted for planning, operations management, scaling, wood flow, procurement, contracting and financial settlements. WtS is helping LP optimize its operations by streamlining management tasks. It provides a single source solution for our information management, it eliminates duplication of data entry tasks, and provides real-time access to valuable information from a single database. WtS increases access to information by capturing and organizing all our map and business information from forest planning to the settlement of harvesting and silviculture contracts.

LP operations staff also have the ability to download digital aerial photographs and other data like, roads, streams and harvest blocks onto our Global Positions System units. They can then head to the field for assessments, surveys, and inspections. Our Pre-Harvest Survey (PHS) crews collect and measure data in the field, the data is recorded on ‘optical cards’. After data transfer, LP staff have access to the information almost immediately within our WtS application. For more information about WTts technology, visit the linnet website at www.cengea.ca.