Most foresters may never have the need or desire to learn SQL, and that’s okay. Nevertheless, I think there are good business reasons for learning the language of relational databases. Foresters who know SQL have an appreciation for how data is stored, why it’s important for data to be clean […]
Timber inventory (i.e., timber cruise) data can be stored in various ways. I find that it’s best to store this type of data in a relational database. A Geospatial database is another suitable choice after the data is cleaned and ready for analysis. Processing bottlenecks can occur when timber cruising […]
A few days ago, I was cruising timber and had just finished up my last plot for the day on the back of the property where I was working. The timber stand I was in had an understory burn this past spring. As I finished tallying the plot I noticed […]
This post is about cloud-based data storage. Simple Storage Service (S3) is one of the most used cloud services on Amazon AWS. There are many reasons why a company might want to store data in the cloud, such as for building cloud-native applications, for archives, or even for hosting static […]
A couple months ago, I sent a short two-question technology survey to a few forestry contacts. What I learned from this exercise was that foresters seldom agree on the most important issues within the industry, but we tend to agree that technology can help address those issues. (Note: It was […]
Records exists in isolation! That was a thought I had recently when I was given the task of organizing twenty years worth of office documents and digital files. Honestly, I had no clue where to start, how to start, or what the end result would be. So, I ended up […]
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