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Revision as of 15:20, 12 February 2010
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.
Software instructions
Software (and hardware) instructions