Development of a Forest Management Planning System for Private Forest in Korea
Woo-Kyun Lee, Woo-Hyuk Byun, Jong-Beom Lim and Jae-Kwon Lee

 

ABSTRACT : For the optimal use of multi-functional forest resources, the forest management planning must be made through the systematic and rational decision-making process. For that it is essential to timely compile and efficiently manage the massive information of forest resources. But procedures of forest management planning for private forest are not yet computerized and performed by conventional method in Korea. This makes forest management planner spending much time and cost on desk for calculating growth factors from stand inventory data and preparing several reports related forest management plan. The conventional forest planning works without computer-aided system make it also difficult to efficiently manage and integrate massive forest information in planning processes. In this study. a computer aided planning system, named Forest Management Planning System(FMPl.O). for private forest was developed with Delphi program language. FMPl.O that runs in WIN95 operation system is an integrated computer system, in which all procedures of forest management planning for private forest, such as data or information management, preparation of several reports can be interactively performed. FMP1. 0 can help the forest management planner spend less time on desk and have more time in field for accurate forest survey. FMPI.O can make it possible, for public servants being charged of official works of private forest management, to efficiently manage massive data and information for the forests in his region.

Key words : Private forest, forest management planning, computer aided planning system