Forestry Management Software News

Trimble introduces Blue Ox integrated transportation management system for forestry

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) today introduced the Blue Ox™ system, an integrated transportation management solution for forestry applications. Blue Ox integrates several mobile technologies with real-time data across the forestry supply chain. The system analyzes and processes the data to help timber companies, loggers and trucking firms increase the percentage of loaded miles, take advantage of more ...

Jul. 25, 2008

By Trimble

MEGATRENDS influencing rural areas and their management

At the time we have several worldwide mega trends – maybe more mega problems – like: • CO² increase and climate change (increase of the avg. temperature of 1° in 100 years),• population growth (1960–2043 from 3 to 9 Bio people, in 250 years from 1 to 10) and• urbanization (in 2030 60% of the population will live in urban areas),• bio energy versus food and food quality vs. quantity,• water ...

May 8, 2008

By PROGIS Software GmbH

Uganda: FAO mapping technologies help fill gaps in forest data

FAO recently introduced new mapping technologies in Uganda that will help the country generate better, more useful forestry statistics and land cover maps. Forests and forest products are important to the livelihoods of many communities in Uganda. The new tools and information will help the government monitor national forest resources and make informed decisions regarding long-term forestry and ...

Aug. 12, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

FAO sets standards to improve national forest monitoring systems

FAO has launched free software tools that it hopes will improve the way many developing nations monitor the state of their forests to tackle deforestation and climate change. The tools are designed to assist countries through the entire lifecycle of a forest inventory - from assessment, design and field ...

Oct. 10, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

A flood of research data offers opportunities for new insights

New DNA sequences, the results of thousands of trials in fields and glasshouses worldwide, three-dimensional images of plants – the flood of data produced by research and development is currently growing faster than the methods available for analyzing it. How can these data be captured, structured, made accessible and then examined in a way that will facilitate new findings? This question ...

Jun. 26, 2015

By Bayer CropScience AG

Make Big Jobs Feel Small With the New John Deere Large-Frame Skid Steer Loaders and Compact Track Loaders

Contractors, landscapers, farmers, rental professionals and other equipment owners who understand the value of compact equipment can now expect even more power, productivity and uptime on the job with the new John Deere large-frame G-Series skid steers (330G, ...

Aug. 17, 2016

By John Deere

Predictions for cleantech in 2013

Every year around this time since 2007, as executive editor of a leading global cleantech research and news service, I’ve contributed to predictions on what to expect in the year ahead in cleantech. We’ve kept that tradition alive here at Kachan & Co. We don’t claim a perfect track record, but we’ve been eerily prescient and nailed some biggies a year or more before ...

Dec. 12, 2012

By Kachan & Co.