SAIF Southern Cape / NMMU Guest Lecture by Adrian Goodwin

Adrian Goodwin is an Australian forestry consultant and growth modeling expert. Adrian will be presenting a talk on the “Farm Forestry Toolbox”(FFT) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Forestry_Toolbox) which he developed and maintains. A range of the programs that makeup the FFT will be discussed including:

  • Basal area wedge calibration
  • Log volumes using different equations – Huber, Smalian, Newton, JAS, & Brereton
  • A simple GIS system
  • Forest disease diagnosis
  • A visual forest inventory system with user-defined grades, and inbuilt log-assortment.
  • A forest growth and finance system which responds to user-defined management regimes, costs and revenues.