Webinar information

We hope you will join us for this webinar to learn how our combined, next-gen, forest inventory solution can help simplify and enhance your day-to-day timber cruising activities to make you more productive, accurate, and profitable.   We will do a live, end-to-end, demo of how to setup stands and plots, sync to mobile devices, navigate to plots, enter tree data, and ultimately calculate volumes in a variety of industry-standard cruise compilation options. Give us an hour, and we will show you the future of cruising.

Is this webinar for you?

This webinar is designed for any forester who wants to simplify how they manage small and large inventory projects, be more productive in the field collecting forest inventory data, and have more control over how they process and report their inventory results.

Registration

1. Click REGISTER to the right of the webinar title. Be sure to log in with your SAF account username and password.

2. After checking out, the webinar will be available on your MY DASHBOARD page here on ForestEd.

For group registrations or registering someone other than yourself please contact membership@safnet.org or 202-938-3910.

Pricing

Member: $5

Non-member: $10

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Webinar access 

The archived recording of the webinar is available for viewing until June 1, 2024 at 12 am ET.

The webinar is accessible within the Contents tab (to the right of the Overview information).

Webinar duration

This webinar is 1 hour.

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Identify how to improve cruising efficiency using modern, GIS-based workflows and the latest rugged devices.

2. Describe how to set up a cruise project in a web-based app by selecting or digitizing stands, allocating plots, and creating error checks.

3. Convey how to download stands, plots, and high-res photos to a device, and then navigate to plots, enter plot, tree, and log data, and collect GPS data.

4. Summarize how to compile cruise data using a variety of forest inventory apps and cruise calculation methods.

5. Explain how to export raw and compiled data to Excel reports, Access, SQL, FVS, or ArcGIS Databases.

6. Identify data collection integration methods with forest measurement devices including high accuracy GPS and laser rangefinders.

7. Describe forest inventory analytic tools including ArcGIS Dashboards, FVS, FPS, Trimble Forestry, and NVEL.

8. Address considerations for audits, lidar, carbon, and wildfire cruises.

Rubric

Successful completion of the webinar is measured by participating in the entire webinar and completing the evaluation.

Evaluation

Participant feedback is appreciated to help the working group and presenters continually improve webinars for future programming.

CFEs

Upon successful completion of this webinar, you will earn 1.0 CFEs in Category 1. CFEs will automatically be added to your CFE record located on www.eforester.org by the end of the day (11:59 pm ET).

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this webinar and the evaluation, participants may download and print a certificate verifying completion of the webinar and earning CFEs. CFE certificates will only be available until May 31, 2024 at 12:00 am ET. 

Return to Webinar

Once you are registered for the webinar, access this webinar within your MY DASHBOARD. Prior to the start time, the webinar will be listed under "Upcoming Live Events." 

Following the day of the webinar, you can return to download your certificate accessing the webinar information within the general listing of YOUR DASHBOARD for 6 months following the webinar. The webinar product will become inaccessible on June 1, 2024 at 12:00 am ET.

Need Help?

For ForestEd questions, visit FAQs, email ForestEdSupport@safnet.org, or check out the registration quick tips in the Handouts tab. For technical assistance and questions about this webinar, email ForestEdSupport@safnet.org.

Refund

This is a non-refundable item. Please view FAQs for additional information.