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Forsite is an integrated forest management company providing value to our clients through innovative, sustainable, and operationally realistic services. We focus on understanding what matters to our clients and their business and then supporting them in success – from strategic analysis to program implementation to field services.

We are industry leaders in providing comprehensive strategic planning, risk assessments and detailed forest management plans. Through the use of cutting-edge technology (LiDAR, Remote Sensing and more), our professional team provides clients with thorough resource analysis to allow them to make cost-effective and sustainable decisions. Whether it be timber evaluations and harvest planning or the evaluation of landbase constraint, reforestation or wildfire plans, our team provides clients with the qualitative information required to create sound forest management.

Internally, Forsite is comprised of business units that focus on different components of the forest management process. We provide expertise in 10 different service areas and our organizational structure allows us to develop specialists in each area, while still providing a complete forest management solution at a corporate level. We employ a staff of over 150 employees and maintain 9 office locations in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. Forsite’s geographic diversity and size provides economies of scale to deliver quality, timely and cost effective forest management services throughout Canada and North America.

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(250) 832-3366 330

42nd St SW
Salmon Arm, BC V1E 2Y9

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More on LiDAR & Enhanced Inventories

CFI Podcast Episode

But what exactly is LiDAR and how does it work? What are its applications and benefits? What are the challenges to adopting this technology?

In the latest episode of The CFI Podcast, editor Ellen Cools speaks with Cam Brown, strategic forester and manager of Forsite Consultants’ resource management and technology group, to answer those questions and more.

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The Power of LiDAR - Creating Enhanced Forest Inventories

LiDAR data can provide direct, objective measurements of stand height, canopy closure, and vertical stand structure. From this information, it is possible to predict other important forest inventory attributes that are useful to operational forestry such as merchantable volume, stems per ha, log products, and stem diameters. As a LiDAR data sets provide wall-to-wall measurements of the forest canopy across the surveyed landbase, it is possible to generate forest inventory information products at a much finer scale than is available from conventional forest inventories.

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Service Information

  • Overview
    Forsite is an integrated forest management company providing value to our clients through innovative, sustainable, and operationally realistic services.
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  • Forest Estate Modeling
    Spatially-explicit event scheduling model, simulated annealing heuristics, many Attributes assigned to each block – age related curves for volume, value, costs, indexes (ECA, Habitat). These attributes are tracked throughout the planning horizon, reported in each planning period, min/max targets can be set.
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  • Innovative Forest Inventory
    Forest inventories derived from high point density LiDAR data are changing the forestry business due to the increasing level of accuracy and detail achieved compared to traditional methods.
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