Op Tracker Classic vs Forest Watcher

Smart tracking for safe, efficient, and productive forestry operations. Op Tracker is a simple, turnkey GIS solution to help you track harvesting equipment – feller bunchers, forwarders, harvesters, and skidders – in real-time, and use this information to monitor and quantify equipment performance and productivity. In addition, you can avoid trespasses with warnings sent to you well before you’re too close to a boundary. With the Op Tracker on hand, not only will you have a competitive edge in the forest industry, your equipment operators also benefit by having corporate GIS data at their fingertips to enable them to do their work better and faster, while remaining safe and compliant. How Op Tracker benefits you With Op Tracker, you can get updates that identify productivity and efficiency of your harvesting equipment. No longer will your forest managers need to estimate where the equipment has been or how productive they were – our app does this for you. In fact, Op Tracker empowers you to see how you are doing, so you can get your job done more efficiently. Through the power of an iOS tablet and proprietary Remsoft algorithms, Op Tracker™ can report on productive machine hours and a wide range of productivity statistics. For operations that require precise navigation, Op Tracker™ can be paired with an external GNSS device to pinpoint the position of machinery with an accuracy of 50 cm, even while under forest canopy.

Forest Watcher is a mobile application designed to bring the dynamic online forest monitoring and alert systems of Global Forest Watch (GFW) offline and into the field. Forest Watcher allows users to easily access GFW’s forest change data on any mobile device, navigate to areas of detected change, and collect information about what they find, regardless of connectivity. This app provides an affordable and easy-to-use solution to quickly identify areas for patrols or field investigations, collect evidence about forest changes from the field, use the data that’s collected to make evidence-based management and conservation decisions, and investigate remote sensing products in the field. Features: * Designate areas of interest to monitor, up to 20,000 sq km * Store various satellite-based forest change data, such as near-real-time deforestation alerts on your mobile device * Overlay contextual layers, such as Protected Areas and Timber Concessions, or upload other custom datasets * Investigate alerts in the field and collect information (including GPS points and photos) through built-in and customizable forms * Review, analyze, and download data collected with the app * Route tracking to investigate a deforestation alert * Share alerts, areas, routes, reports, contextual layers and basemap tiles or all app content at once. * Manage a team and more through the supplementary desktop application at forestwatcher.globalforestwatch.org If you have any issues downloading or using the app, please reference our “how-to” materials. If the issues persist, please contact us at forestwatcher@wri.org. Any other questions or feedback, please contact us at forestwatcher@wri.org. Full terms and conditions can be found at http://www.globalforestwatch.org/terms.