remote-work SilviaTerra's Guide to Working Remotely SilviaTerra has been a fully remote company for the last 10 years. We would like to share some strategies that we use to make it work. Remember that, like any new skill, working
Welcoming Riaz Jahangir to the team! SilviaTerra is excited to welcome Riaz Jahangir, who will be joining the Developer Team. With big projects underway (like Version 2 of our Basemap Technology), Riaz’s extensive experience building and supporting complex
My SilviaTerra Internship Experience Working at SilviaTerra as a Tech intern for the summer of 2019 was an amazing experience. As an intern, I was able to contribute directly to the team, research and work on my
Introducing the forestsamplr package! SilviaTerra is pleased to announce the release of a public Git repository, ‘forestsamplr’. This repository, found here: https://github.com/SilviaTerra/forestsamplr is a public, collaborative R package containing code for forest measurement
Use and utility of rasterized heatmaps - Part 2 In the first post in this blog series, we covered several ways that you can use a set of rasterized inventory heatmaps to visualize stand structure and delineate stands. In this post, we’
Use and utility of rasterized heatmaps - Part 1 High-resolution heatmaps are a useful tool for field foresters, inventory managers, and landowners. They can be used for a wide variety of planning and management activities, including stand delineation, identification of failed plantations,
Welcoming Nathan Rutenbeck to the team! SilviaTerra is excited to introduce the newest member of our Biometrics team, Nathan Rutenbeck. Nathan's a keen statistician and brings a wealth of Bayesian modelling experience to our team. His knowledge as a
2018 Joint Southern And Northeastern Mensurationists And IUFRO 4.01 Conference Members of our biometrics team spent the beginning of this week in Blacksburg, Virginia at an amazing joint meeting of the Southern and Northeastern Mensurationists organizations, as well as IUFRO 4.01 (Forest
SilviaTerra sponsors ForestSAT Our team was excited to sponsor the annual ForestSat Conference in College Park, MD. Along with our co-sponsor Microsoft, we opened up early access for industry, conservation, and academic partners to our "
All Hands-uquerque The SilviaTerra team has wrapped up another great All Hands meeting. This time around we met in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All Hands meetings are an important part of keeping our fully remote team
How Model-Assisted Sampling Can Reduce Fieldwork This article first appeared in the August issue of The Forestry Source. In the previous Biometrics Bits article, "Sources of Error in Forest Inventory," we mentioned how a model-assisted (MA) approach
VRP Sampling - Small Diameter Struggles This article first appeared in the January issue of the Forestry Source. Variable-Radius Plot (VRP) sampling has become the dominant method of sampling in forest inventory, but this hasn't always been the case.
How to Avoid a Common Mistake When Comparing Two Inventories This article first appeared in the March issue the Forestry Source. Comparing two inventories is challenging. There are many factors that need to be considered when comparing two inventory estimates and the math
Sources of Error in Forest Inventory This article first appeared in the June issue of the Forestry Source. I remember a time in forestry school at Mississippi State when the professor had each student try to count every single
conferences 2018 Association of Consulting Foresters Conference Max Nova spoke about how to "Make Remote Sensing an Easy Part of Your Daily Workflow" at the 2018 Association of Consulting Foresters national conference in Asheville, NC.
conferences 2018 Intertribal Timber Conference Greetings from Ocean Shores, Washington where SilviaTerra is presenting at the 2018 Intertribal Timber Conference. SilviaTerra founders Zack Parisa and Max Nova discussed how SilviaTerra's CruiseBoost remote sensing system is helping tribes use
conferences SAF Forest Tech Workshop: How To Not Waste Money on Forest Inventory SilviaTerra helped sponsor the Society of American Foresters Forest Technology Workshop this week in Columbia, South Carolina. SilviaTerra co-founder Max Nova presented a talk about the economics of forest inventory called "How
Volume Update - Scaled Output One of the best features of SilviaTerra’s Plot Hound and Canopy cruising systems is that they are constantly evolving and getting better. In our previous post in this series we went through
Volume Update - Form Class Options One of the best features of SilviaTerra’s Plot Hound and Canopy cruising systems is that they are constantly evolving and getting better. In our last post we talked about how you can
Volume Update - Multiple Products One of the best features of SilviaTerra’s Plot Hound and Canopy cruising systems is that they are constantly evolving and getting better. In the last post of this series we went over
Volume Update - Topwood One of the best features of SilviaTerra’s Plot Hound and Canopy cruising systems is that they are constantly evolving and getting better. We recently enhanced our volume estimates by giving users more
Smartphone Apps for Forestry The following post originally appeared in the 2018 Q1 issue of Northwest Mining and Timber. It was written by SilviaTerra's co-founder, Max Nova. Over the last 10 years, the smartphone revolution has transformed
SilviaTerra Sponsors Yale Data Science Hackathon This past weekend, SilviaTerra returned to its roots at Yale to sponsor the second annual Yale Data Science Hackathon. Teams from 20 different schools came together for a 48-hour coding marathon. Choosing from
conferences SilviaTerra President Gives Starker Lecture at OSU Oregon State's College of Forestry invited SilviaTerra's president, Zack Parisa, to give the first talk in the annual Starker Lecture Series. Last week, Zack laid out his vision for the future of forestry
SilviaTerra Presents at Stanford Natural Capital Project SilviaTerra President Zack Parisa spoke at the Natural Capital Project lab meeting. He discussed issues around resource monitoring, assessment of additionality, and valuing the natural capital represented by our world's forests. Zack will