More updates… What about FPS 6.x? According to The Forest Biometrics Research Institute (FBRI) The Forest Projection and Planning System (FPS) Version 6.99 and less has reached end of support / life. What does this mean? This means that FBRI will no longer be supporting any version of FPS 6 or before. This includes providing the software. How does that affect you?

Big changes around the nest in the coming year… WOW week 1 of 2015. OK that is a technicality since it is still 2014 but all the references the penguins here can find are that since 2015 starts this week that makes it 2015. The site has been quiet. I think the FSD Web Penguin took a vacation while the rest of the penguins around the office have been running around like mad.

The Forest Biometrics Research Institute (FBRI) Annual meeting. World Forestry Center - Cheatham Hall Portland, Oregon November 11, 2014 10am - 2:30pm What did we learn and what did we get and where is FBRI going… Full Disclosure… Free State Drivers is contracted with FBRI to perform technical support services as well as other tasks. However, this is just statement of facts discussed at the latest annual meeting.

Thneed Digest???? What the… What have the FSD Penguins been doing and what happened to Thneed Weekly??? Plus some info on the upcoming workshop… You ask excellent questions. Well the Web Penguin is a little OCD about what he puts out and Thneed weekly just got farther behind every week and the need to make a complete post every week started to take more time than any of the penguins here had.

The time has come to try and branch out some. So we here at FSD chained out IT penguin to a computer this week with a few tasks to do. One of those tasks requires some serious computing power. So the work around was to leverage all the computer cores around the nest to crank out some numbers.the real problem was to do that would have meant a minimum of 16 virtual machines plus cranking up a few extra machines.

EUREKA!!!! Thneed Weekly returns. Back in week 2014 – 28 of Thneed Weekly we covered briefly what a D-Tape was and how the units were multiplied out to be PI units to automatically provide the user with the diameter. This week we will derive the formula to calculate basal area of a tree. Basal area is a metric that foresters use to determine stocking of an area among other things.

Please check back next week when Thneed Weekly Returns with an exciting demonstration of how to derive basal area. Stay Tuned!!!

Due to higher than normal work load the next few weeks of the Thneed Weekly may not have any content. Please check back later. The next post with content will be an exciting demonstration of how to derive basal area.

Due to higher than normal work load the next few weeks of the Thneed Weekly may not have any content. Please check back later. The next post with content will be an exciting demonstration of how to derive basal area.