FOREST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (FORMIS) AN APPLICATION OF GIS IN THE FORESTRY IN TURKEY

摘要

To make better decision, to improve productivity, to save time, money and man power in forest management activities, required are dynamic both locational and descriptive inventory data, rather geographic information. Conventional maps and forest inventories un papers are lack of meeting these requirements which are not static and subjected to change rapidlly. As for the Computer Aided Design/Drafting/Display (CAD) and Data Base Management (DBM) systems, their capabilities are confined in manupulation of locational or descriptive data, respectively. Meeting all the requirements in forest management activities, a GIS is the only system to be chosen, since it is able to manupulate locational and clescriptive data as well as the relationships between them dynamicaly. In this paper, GIS activities and Forestry in Turkey are briefly discussed and then terminology and theorytical concepts on GIS, Forest Management and the link between them are reviewed. An Example of a regional plot-based forest inventory (Forest serie of Buyukduz in Turkey) integrated In a GIS, namely FORMIS (Forest Management Information System) (an application software written in Simple Macro Language of the PC Arc/Info software package) is also presented.