General System description

System name: inFlor

Brief overview

InFlor is a management information system that stores information from a set of databases (industrial and academic) integrating all forest based data in a common structure. inFlor includes basic geographic visualization tools as well as detailed biometric and climatic data from sample plots covering the full mainland Portugal. This system has been designed with two basic objectives

1. Provide a simple framework to consult and access the forest information available
2. Provide data access to the prescription writer SAGfLOR

Scope of the system

The system aim to help in the execution of future forest inventories and the homogenization of the existing ones. It also allows edition in order to face upcoming information that was not foreseen to be inventoried.

System origin

• It was developed by Carla Miragaia, José Guilherme Borges, André Falcão and Margarida Tomé
• free/commercial product?
• It has been tried in Portugal and in a Brazilian estate<ref>MIRAGAIA C., BORGES J.G., RODRIGUES F.A., ESTRAVIZ RODRIGUEZ L.C. (1999): Uma aplicação do sistema inFlor na gestão de dados florestais. Circular técnica IPEF. Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brasil.(free available in pdf)</ref>.

Support for specific issues

It has only been developed in order to help in the management of Portuguese forest inventories

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

• Silvicultural
• Certification
• Conservation
• Development choices / land use zoning
• Policy/intervention alternatives

Related systems

• SADfLOR
• SAGfLOR
• DECfLOR

Data and data models

Typical spatial extent of application

The inventory data acquisition is taken at a inventory plot level.

Forest data input

The required data is initially classified between property, geographic, occupation, soil, climate and inventory data. Inside these sections the data is very diverse.

System

System requirements

• Operating Systems: Microsoft® Windows® OS
• It uses in his work environment MS Access™ and MapObjects LT, former as BBDD manager and latter in the GIS tool integration.
• Development status: finished

Architecture and major DSS components

Developed as a desktop application using MS VisualBasic™.

Usage

Describe the level of use: Research level use, Industry use, Government use

Documentation and support

An User's manual has been published <ref>MIRAGAIA, C.; BORGES, J.G. (1998): INfLOR - Sistema de Gestão de Informação Florestal: manual do utilizador versão 1.0. Lisboa: DEF, Grupo de Economia e Gestão em Recursos Florestais (GEGREF). 31p. (Documento n.2)</ref>

References

Cited references

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External resources

• # MARQUES S. et J.G. BORGES (2007): Relatório de execução do Sistema de Gestão de Informação INfLOR 2.1. GEGREN Grupo de Economia e Gestão dos Recursos Naturais. Documento Técnico nº 02/07. 43pp.