Richmond, VA – May 12, 2009 – Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial and engineering consulting services, recently completed the development of a Forestry Guideline Monitoring Tool for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Division of Forestry. Timmons Group worked with DNR in 2008 to scope and define the requirements for the monitoring tool. The tool, built on ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop 9.3, allows for the creation, management and reporting on forestry guideline-monitoring data and associated spatial content. The tool provides for dynamic user-entry and user screens around monitoring questionnaires.
“The dynamic nature of the application allows for a great deal of flexibility and extensibility in the future,” said Bryan Kelley, Senior Project Manager for Timmons Group. “The application allows for custom question and answer screens around monitoring locations and related observations. This design approach was taken in an effort to facilitate future changes and to accommodate the robust nature of field-based data collection.”
The implementation of forest management guidelines is a statutory responsibility of the DNR and the results are important to the DNR, the State’s Logger Education Program, county land departments, forestry industry, private forest landowners, and numerous federal, state, and local regulatory programs.
About Timmons Group
Timmons Group is a leading provider of geospatial, information architecture and engineering services focusing on ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Mobile and Enterprise solutions. Timmons Group is a privately held ENR 500 company and maintains a strong business partner relationship with the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), a world leader in GIS modeling and mapping software and technology. Timmons Group is a multi-award winning ESRI Business Partner whose clients have won many awards including the ESRI Special Achievement Award (SAG) in GIS.
For more information about Timmons Group’s technology services, contact Lowell Ballard at lowell.ballard@timmons.com or visit http://gis.timmons.com.
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