Additional Tools

IMPROVING PRODUCTS AND TOOLS

HARDWOOD PRODUCT RECOVERY MATRIX

  • Predict product recovery (% sawlog) from tree characteristics
  • Can be combined with remote sensing data

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS) PROTOTYPE

  • Simplifies forest management
  • Framework to help making decisions and compare consequences of alternative actions

MULTI-TREATMENT PLANNING TOOL (MTPT)

  • Automated tool that provides a silvicultural treatment at one-hectare resolution
  • Compatible with ArcGIS so it can be used in the navigation systems of harvesting machines
  • Currently uses field inventory – version that uses remote sensing data under development

TRAINING TOOLS

Training and knowledge transfer are at the forefront of everything we do at NHRI. Our team has very considerable training experience within the forestry sector. NHRI’s training capacity is very flexible and responsive to our clients’ needs. We offer a variety of training in several formats:

  • On-site forest workshops
  • One-on-one custom training
  • Development of training videos and multimedia tools
  • Demonstrations/simulations
  • Technology-inclined workshops
  • Boardroom training

INFORMING PRODUCTS AND TOOLS

STAND DENSITY MANAGEMENT DIAGRAM CALIBRATED FOR TOLERANT HARDWOODS OF NORTHWEST NEW BRUNSWICK

  • Help to determine thinning needs and to monitor stand development after treatment
  • Provides limits of density and stocking within stand should be maintained for optimal growth

MAPPING OF PROBABILITY OF MOOSE BROWSING ON REGENERATION AND SAPLING OF COMMERCIAL SPECIES

  • Identified areas where there’s a high probability that regeneration is browsed by moose

KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS

  • Pre-commercial thinning
  • Distribution, silvics and stand attributes of key species associated with northern hardwoods in New Brunswick
  • Silvicultural systems and treatments for tolerant hardwoods of New Brunswick

ENABLING PRODUCTS AND TOOLS

DETERMINATION KEY TO ASSESS REGENERATION VIGOR

  • Estimation of regeneration vigor
  • Tool to assess goals of previous silviculture treatments

OPEN STAND MODEL (OSM): EQUATIONS AND CALIBRATION 

  • New growth and yield model
  • Mix between STAMAN tree-level and Acadian model

REMOTE SENSING TOOL TO ASSESS STAND VIGOR FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY

  • Predict proportion of commercial trees likely to survive in the next 15 years, with value expected to remain stable or improve over time

REMOTE SENSING TOOL TO ESTIMATE BASAL AREA FROM LANDSAT IMAGERY

  • Estimation of basal area in even-aged and two-cohort stands

REMOTE SENSING TOOL TO CHARACTERIZE REGENERATION

  • Estimation of stem density, stocking and composition in regeneration areas

SILVICULTURE PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM (SPS) MOBILE AND WEB APP

  • App where you answer questions and recommend silviculture prescriptions
  • Promote SPS

FOREST HARVEST CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR NEW BRUNSWICK

  • Describes impacts on stands and resulting conditions of harvest treatments