User's guide to Ivent
Introduction
Ivent is an application to be installed on a handheld Windows Mobile device. It is used for field measurements (estimations) of sample plot 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 (TM)), including a digital caliper (for tree diameter measurement), a clinometer (for tree height measurement), a GPS, and a new tree positioning device (PosTex).
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.
From Mobile to Forest database
How Do I?
Considerable techniqualities are involved in a field inventory. Summarizing, the work always begins indoors, with PlanStart and other softwares (e.g. any GIS) and available information, before entering the outdoors, technically 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 in front of the computer screen 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. How do you do depends on how you do it, therefore, do it right.