WisFIRS Application

Ann SchachteGIS CoordinatorDivision of ForestryWisconsin DNR

WisFIRSWisconsin Forest Inventory & Reporting System

June 6, 2014

An Overview of the

• Why are we building it? • How did we integrate GIS? • What’s next?• Demonstration• Questions

WisFIRS….

RECONTimber Sale

MFL

PlanTrac

LAND

PROPERTIESHARVEST CONSTRAINTSFINANCIALSREPORTS

MFL ORDERSFCL ORDERS

FINANCIALSREPORTSLETTERS

NON-TAXREPORTSLETTERS

TIMBERSALESSTUMPAGE

LAND OWNERMFL ORDERSFCL ORDERS

STANDSPRACTICES

GIS Integration

WisFIRS: Integration Overview

WisFIRS mapping needs

Identify the “chunk of dirt” we manage on State, County and Private (Forest Tax Law) lands

Spatially enable the “business data” for public and private forest land management.

Forest Ownership in Wisconsin

• Non Industrial Private Landowners = 57%

• Industrial Landowners = 11%

• Private Corps. = 4%

State5%County

15%

Federal10%

Private57%

Private Corps

4%

Industry7%

Tribal2%

Public Ownership = 30%

Private Ownership = 70%

Lands Managed in WisFIRS

 Land by management group Total Acres

Managed Forest Lands (MFL) – private 2,990,994

Forest Crop Lands (FCL) - private 244,404

County Forests (29 counties) – public 2,351,599

State Forests - public 553,736

Other DNR Managed Land (Parks, Wildlife Areas, etc.) - public 984,157

Total 7,124,890

Lands Managed by WisFIRS

Our user community…

WisFIRS Public Lands users are located in various offices around the state:

- 230 DNR foresters (Internal to DNR network)

- 70 County foresters (external to DNR network)

WisFIRS Private Lands users – 170 independent consulting foresters (external to DNR network)

WisFIRS: Project Summary

WisFIRS will enable foresters to:• Store data collected in the field• Use a Template for Management Plans• Plan & Track practices and treatments

• e.g. Mandatory Practices, Rx burning• Report accomplishments• Renew Cooperating Forester status• Administer MFL program • Calculate payments to municipalities…

… and much more!

WisFIRS Releases…. past, present and future

R1: Public lands management (6/07)Tru64: Reports & processes (1/09)Timber Sales lite: (5/09)

Timber Sales Product codes: (11/09)

R2: Public GIS integration: (6/11)

R3: Private lands management (6/2012 to 1/2015)• Multiple releases

R4: Public financials, timber sale, stumpage (TBD)*R5: Private GIS (TBD)R6: Private financials, harvest (TBD)*R7: Stew plans, field data capture (TBD)

* May swap order of releases

WisFIRS GIS: Solution Scenarios

ArcGIS Server – RECOMMENDED• Centralized system• Reduce management overhead• Improve disaster recovery• Reduce licensing costs• Positioned well for field data capture• Consistent with ESRI’s long term strategy

Note: Includes Desktop Solution Support for “Power Users”

Core Technologies

Oracle 11g R2 database (ver 11.2.0.3) – for storage of tabular application and GIS application data.

ESRI ArcGIS Server 10.1 – for geo-processing of GIS application.

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 – for offline editing of shapes, and uploading them to the server.

Microsoft Internet Information Server 7.5 – runs the tabular web application.

Microsoft Internet Information Server 7.5 – runs the GIS web application.

Core Technologies cont.

Python – used for geo-processing scripts.

jQuery – used in client side GIS application code.

Javascript – used in client side tabular and GIS application code.

Visual Basic.NET – used in server side code for tabular application.

C#.NET – used in server side code for GIS application.

SSRS 2008 – used for generating and managing reports that are integrated with the tabular application.

What’s next?

Private Lands GIS - Beginning to digitize existing open MFL lands

- Working with SCO to obtain parcel data

- Long term maintenance of MFL lands will be

through WisFIRS GIS

Demo