Designed for natural resource professionals who need clarity from the ground to the landscape scale, Visual Forester Pro allows users to explore, analyze, and communicate forest conditions across projects up to 10,000 acres. Its intuitive interface and advanced modeling tools make it ideal for illustrating harvests, treatments, reforestation efforts, and comprehensive management plans.
Built on decades of forest management and software development experience, the platform supports high-accuracy data inputs—including DEMs, shapefiles, TreeMap datasets, and LiDAR-derived inventories—ensuring your visualizations reflect real-world conditions. Whether used for planning, stakeholder communication, or public outreach, Visual Forester Professional delivers detail, realism, and reliability.
Visual Forester Pro
VF Pro:Visual Forester Professional is our new expanded platform for large-scale forest visualization and scenario modeling.
Designed for natural resource professionals who need clarity from the ground to the landscape scale, Visual Forester Pro allows users to explore, analyze, and communicate forest conditions across projects up to 10,000 acres. Its intuitive interface and advanced modeling tools make it ideal for illustrating harvests, treatments, reforestation efforts, and comprehensive management plans.
Built on decades of forest management and software development experience, the platform supports high-accuracy data inputs—including DEMs, shapefiles, TreeMap datasets, and LiDAR-derived inventories—ensuring your visualizations reflect real-world conditions. Whether used for planning, stakeholder communication, or public outreach, Visual Forester Professional delivers detail, realism, and reliability.
Designed for natural resource professionals who need clarity from the ground to the landscape scale, Visual Forester Pro allows users to explore, analyze, and communicate forest conditions across projects up to 10,000 acres. Its intuitive interface and advanced modeling tools make it ideal for illustrating harvests, treatments, reforestation efforts, and comprehensive management plans.
Built on decades of forest management and software development experience, the platform supports high-accuracy data inputs—including DEMs, shapefiles, TreeMap datasets, and LiDAR-derived inventories—ensuring your visualizations reflect real-world conditions. Whether used for planning, stakeholder communication, or public outreach, Visual Forester Professional delivers detail, realism, and reliability.
Key Features:
Better research, Better Decisions
When you and your audience can picture every tree, shrub, rock, snag, or building—you’re better equipped to communicate a point or make informed decisions. Use detailed forest visualization to support specific talking points or create a compelling visual story.
Model
Visual Forester Pro lets you explore forest inventory at a true landscape scale. Visualize harvests, thinnings, growth, and reforestation across projects up to 10,000 acres. Our in-house library includes hundreds of high-quality 3D models representing forestlands throughout the United States and Canada.
Creation Library
Conifers
Hardwoods
Vegetation
Animals
Object Library
Import
Bring your GIS data to life in just a few clicks. Import Digital Elevation Models, polygons, stand inventory, individual-tree stem maps, roads, and streams. Visual Forester Pro automatically populates trees across the landscape, enabling you to create compelling visuals from any viewpoint.
Quantify
No matter how your inventory is imported, Visual Forester Pro estimates tree volume and biomass using FIA equations. Instantly view and query inventory attributes for all visible trees directly within the 3D scene.
Capture
Elevate presentations with stunning, high-resolution visuals. Visual Forester Pro includes tools to capture still images and videos up to 3840 × 2160 (4K). Built-in camera paths, fly-through tools, and offline rendering ensure smooth, professional-quality video output—even on lower-powered machines.
Capture
Elevate presentations with stunning, high-resolution visuals. Visual Forester Pro includes tools to capture still images and videos up to 3840 × 2160 (4K). Built-in camera paths, fly-through tools, and offline rendering ensure smooth, professional-quality video output—even on lower-powered machines.
The Time for Forest Visualization is Now
With major topics like carbon planning, wildfire risk management, and wildlife habitat conservation, it is more important than ever that we effectively communicate forest data and decision making to students, collaborators, and stakeholders with diverse specialties and backgrounds. Stand Designer offers simple, versatile tools for natural resources professionals, students, educators, landowners, regulators, and community members to share and understand forest conditions through immersive visualization.
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