A Concept of Forest Information System in Hyrcanian Forests Case Study: Kheiroud Forest

Now a day, Forestry managers tend to plan a comprehensive module for sustainable management of forest lands of Iran in order to achieve the aims of sustainable forest management due to concerns about large data volume, competition in acquiring information and data organizing/processing. In this work, we have designed the forest information system for Hyrcanian forests (Iran) for the first time; the system was experimentally planned for research/extension station of Kheiroud (Mazandaran prov.). Forest information system results from integrating spatial- and non- spatial data of various points of the forest land in data bank format. Conceptual data model was designed using Gee! Software based on the entity relationship, then planned at physical level under Access2007; non-spatial data entity relationship given in Access2007 also cover spatial data using Arc view 2.3a software. Finally, the work indicates a promising perspective resulting from systemic view over sustainable forest management emphasizing the advantages of planning forest information system as a way to future sustainable forest management compared with traditional method applied in forest lands at present.