Forest Inventory Revamp Project

Re-engineering of the National Forest Inventory of Sri Lanka.

Forest Inventory Revamp Project

Re-engineering of the National Forest Inventory of Sri Lanka.

The National Forest Inventory is a monitoring system that produces information about national and regional forests – resources – volume, growth, quality of growing stock, land use structure, forest ownership, forest health,  biodiversity of forests and forest carbon stocks and changes. The project spanned across re-engineering the National Forest Inventory of Sri Lanka and delivering a comprehensive training program to Forest Department of Sri Lanka.

Strategic Importance

Strategic Importance

  • A project of national and public interest with great economic and environmental value

  • Secured national forest inventory control to FDSL

  • Procedures were deployed to improve data collection and analysis in the existing system

  • Assistance provided to FDSL in the current system audit process

  • Facilitated yearly modifications to accommodate input data and to backup the past data from the existing server

  • Provision of support to restart the data entry process

  • Process automation to backup the system database in a separate host

  • Support and Maintenance provided by Effective Solutions

Source: Methodology Document for National Forest Inventory of Sri Lanka