1.1.5 Learn More About how Forest are Subdivided

Learn More About How Forest are Subdivided

Large areas of forest are usually organised in different units. These units may vary depending on the country or organisation. ForestHQ allows the user to create or import different levels of forest organisation. These are the levels that can be defined in ForestHQ.

• • • REGION: This is mainly used for large companies with forests across different countries or regions (counties, states, etc.)

    • FOREST: Forest property defined in a specific area.

    • COMPARTMENT: Forest subdivision for organisational purposes (used in large forest areas).

    • SUB-COMPARTMENT: The compartments can be divided into different sub-compartments for management purposes (areas with similar forest stand conditions: same species, plant year, etc).

    • STRATA: This is a subdivision of the sub-compartments only used within the activities to mark temporary changes in the forest stand (e.g. different wood quality, windblown trees, etc). This is a handy tool provided by ForestHQ to map the forest more accurately looking and areal imagery or other remote sensing data.

Depending on your forest organisation you may only have some of these levels.

In addition to the forest organisational levels, ForestHQ also provides an operations layer. Activities or operations are created when an activity is assigned to some of the Sub-compartments (E.g. inventory or field survey, harvesting, etc.).