Difference between revisions of "User's guide to Ivent"

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Introduction

Ivent is an Windows Mobile application for handheld devices. It is used for field inventory of sample plot data. PlanStart is used for setting up a sample design, and export data to Ivent, and import it back and process the collected data.

The inventory of a sample plot includes the registration of tree and site characteristics. The application can retrieve data from peripheral devices (through Bluetooth or other radio), including a digital caliper (for tree diameter measurement), a clinometer (for tree height measurement), a GPS, and a new tree positioning device (PosTex).

Main steps

Considerable techniqualities are involved in a field inventory. In short, a field inventory includes the following steps:

Import a stand register
Set up a sample design
Set up an inventory and export data to a database file
Copy the database file to the field computer
It is possible to distribute an inventory over several field crews just by distributing the same file created in the step above. PlanStart can handle this when importing back to the system.
Do field inventory with Ivent
Import field inventory data back to PlanStart
If you have distributed the inventory to several computers, you can import them one by one until the whole inventory is completed.

Field inventory instructions

Instruction from 2008 (in Swedish) NB: This instruction is from field-studies made in summer '08 and has not been updated in accordance with the latest version of Ivent.

Field inventory instruction

Software instructions

User's manual to Ivent

Reference

Database

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 == Software instructions ==
-[[Software (and hardware) instructions]]
+[[User's manual to Ivent]]
-== From Mobile to Forest database ==
-[[Import and export]]
-== How Do I? ==
-Considerable techniqualities are involved in a field inventory. In short, the work always begins indoors, with [[PlanStart]] and other softwares (e.g. GIS) and available information, before entering the outdoors, fully equipped. Back from field, and now loaded with information about the forests; the stands, the plots, and the trees, the user will once again be stationed by the computer to finish the work in [[PlanStart]]. Finally, there should be a forest described and imported to a Heureka forest database, ready for analyses with, e.g., [[PlanWise]].
 == Reference ==
 [[:Category:Database|Database]]