MSC Mobile

Drawing exercise in the forest with martelage.sylvothque.ch

Near-natural silviculture requires a very good understanding of forest ecosystems and their natural processes in order to steer forest development in a targeted and efficient manner, in line with the expectations of forest owners and society. Experience plays a central role in this.

The internet platform martelage.sylvotheque.ch (MSC) was developed to provide a large number of different silvicultural situations in the form of marteloscopes and to make them easily accessible.

With the MSC Mobile App you have access to all these marteloscopes and you can carry out drawing exercises in the forest without an internet connection. Interactive maps are available for this, which are adapted to the size of smartphone screens. You can also see the results of your marking directly.

Main functionalities of MSC Mobile:

- Selection of a marteloscope from a list that is automatically synchronized with martelage.sylvotheque.ch

- Interactive map for drawing exercises with information on tree positions, tree types and tree diameters

- Determination of the marking status of the trees (preserved / promoted, felled / used, no status) with the possibility of giving reasons for the selection

- Searching for a tree from a tree list

- Presentation of the available information about the existing trees, such as tree species, diameter, but also, depending on the marteloscope, the wood quality or the ecological value

- Representation of the dendrometric parameters of the selected marteloscope and the results of the marking carried out in the form of tables and graphics: number of trunk per ha (N), base area per ha (G), supply per ha (V), upper diameter (ddom), central trunk diameter (dg ), Tree species composition (% G), proportion of the base area according to the categories of small wood (P), medium wood (M) and large wood (G), as well as distribution of the number of trees according to diameter classes

- Information about the marteloscope such as its area and the year of the state survey

- Export of the markings made to your MSC account, with the option of viewing the markings on martelage.sylvotheque.ch and comparing them with the markings of other users

MSC Mobile was developed at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) with the support of the Canton of Geneva. It is the result of a collaboration between the University of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (BFH-HAFL) and the Department of Technology and Computer Science (BFH-TI). This is the first version. Please contact us if you have suggestions for improvement> [email protected].

Before going into a marteloscope, you should contact the responsible forest manager, especially if you are planning to do marking exercises in a group.

For those interested, an article about MSC was published in the Swiss Forestry Journal: Rosset C, Sciacca S, Flückiger S, Fiedler U (2019) Exercices de martelage et suivi sylvicole sur martelage.sylvotheque.ch (MSC). Switzerland Z Forstwes 170 (2): 98-101. doi: 10.3188 / szf.2019.0098