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Forest informatics is a multidisciplinary field of science that "harnesses the power of computational and information technologies to organize and analyze biological data from research collections, experiments, remote sensing, modeling, database searches and instrumentation and deliver them to users throughout the world." Computational and information management technologies used to support decision-making activities in the field of forest informatics include decision support systems, mathematical modeling software, statistical and algorithmic analysis tools, geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and shared databases.

Forestry informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as optimizing harvest scheduling and crew assignment, computing wildfire risk indices, assessing forestry management guidelines, resolving log bucking problems, and developing and optimizing mathematical algorithms for ecological modeling. (Full article...)

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