Integrated Forest Monitoring Assessment and Prescription (IFMAP) is a current on-going DNR project that is focusing on streamlining inventory data capture and reporting using geo-spatial and remote sensing technologies.

Increasingly, DNR managers are expected to make local and immediate decisions in the context of broader landscape concerns, long-term trends, and desired future outcomes. This project must therefore, develop a flexible system that supports decision-making across multiple spatial and temporal scales. In order to achieve these information goals at reasonable cost, the project seeks to take advantage of efficiencies offered by advances in technology as well as in the integration and augmentation of existing data.

This presentation will provide an overview of IFMAP’s 3 broad functional categories (1) state-wide, coarse resolution, forest inventory based on classification of LandSat TM satellite imagery and integration with the federal Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) system (2) DNR-lands, multi-resource inventory based on interpretation of high-resolution (1 m pixel) imagery and a re-designed DNR field inventory and; (3) construction of a custom client/server GIS application for supporting collection, storage, access and analysis of inventory data based on ESRI’s Arc 8 and ArcSDE software.