If you need information about a stand of forest, no matter how remote the area, Lanworth has the tools to tell you what species the trees are, what age, the type of soil they grow in, the volume of merchantable wood in the stand, who owns the land, and how much it will cost you to harvest and extract the wood.
Lanworth, formerly Forest One, takes all the riddles and guesswork out of planning a cut. The company offers a range of services for efficient planning and management of the fiber supply chain, stump to mill. Lanworth’s tools assist forestry professionals and TIMOs in making the best decisions for fiber procurement, management, timber basin analysis, economic analysis, due diligence, and environmental audit data management.
Farsighted planning
“We specialize in integrating strategic information, extracted from satellite and airborne imagery, with proprietary models for planning and decision analysis,” says Shailu Verma, president of the company. “Our tools comprise the only comprehensive stump-to-mill information solution in the industry.”
“The two major applications of our services are strategic and ecological analysis and tactical operations,” Verma continues. “In the first case, we provide tools that help landowners answer questions like are we managing sustainably, are we extracting more than we’re growing. In the second application, we provide information for determining the most economical method of tree extraction.”
“For example,” he explains, “If you operate in the southeastern US, we have satellite data for every county and can provide maps of all forests areas with species, age class, volume measurement information and other specific data such as soil structure, access roads, railroad networks, and land ownership.” Among other uses, this helps land managers plan a profitable and sustainable cut and logging contractors determine the type of logging equipment required to harvest the stand.
Desktop forestry
One of Lanworth’s products, F1.Cruise, is a revolutionary tool for appraising timber. It allows foresters to get useful third-party information about a tract, without leaving the office, to help decide if it’s worth a closer look.
With F1.Cruise, foresters can access aerial photography of their buying area, determine accurate acreages, subtract out acres lost to roads and SMZs, print out aerial and topographical maps for use in the field and keep all current “cruises” in one place on their computer – all this without leaving the office.
