VLP Advantages
Ease of Use
- Developed for forestry technicians, planners and GIS personnel
- PC Windows based, very user friendly
- Load forest cover from forest company or MOF inventory maps
- Utilizes ArcInfo/ArcView files
- Large simultaneous planning areas (50++ mapsheets)
- Render from any number of viewpoints or panorama width
Planning features
- Photo-realism and technically accurate
- Full forest cover used, individual forest polygons
- Edit individual forest polygons for density, height, species
- Harvest retention levels 0-100%
- Project summer or winter conditions
- Identification of visible and hidden cutblocks
- Low detail (fast) and high detail renderings
- Drape visual landscape boundaries and resource constraints over forest
- Visibility mapping features (separate module)
- Project growth of forest over time (separate module)
- Perspective to plan (P2P) design modules available (separate module)
Functionality
- Integrated single stand alone software
- GIS viewing features
- Digitizer module and on-screen digitizing (under development)
- Minimum system requirements: P3 600, 128 MB RAM, graphics card
- Import data from MOF, ArcInfo, DXF
- Map conversions and NAD shift module (under development)
- Library of 32 BC tree species, and ground material types
- Can be customized to suit.
Products
- Photo-realistic and technically accurate renderings in minutes
- Rendered maps
- Visibility maps (under development)
- VIA impact analysis calculations (under development)
Support
- Developed and supported by Enfor Consultants Ltd., North Vancouver, BC
- Training by Enfor; user support contracts available.
- Development and adaptation to suit client needs or future requirements
