APPRENTICE MARIA ALEJANDRA HERNANDEZ ORTIZ

INSTRUCTOR JHONATAN FANDIÑO

NATIONAL LEARNING SERVICE SENA GUAVIARE AGROINDUSTRIAL,

TOURIST AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER

TECHNOLOGIST IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE
2020
LOCATION-REALIZATION OF THE FOREST INVENTORY LOCATION: the
biodiverse farm is located in the El Retiro village located 11 kilometers from the urban area
of highway 54 via San José -Villavicencio, with an area of: 10 hectares of which 5 are
usable and the missing are part of the nature reserve (SERRANÍA LA LINDOSA
PRESERVATION AREA). Specifically, the location has some coordinates: to the north
(N) with 2,548'571”, to the west (W) with 72,718'400”.
 A FOREST INVENTORY

It consists of the systematic collection of data on the forest resources of a given area. It
allows the evaluation of the current state and lays the foundations for analysis and planning,
which constitute the starting point of sustainable forest management. Its importance lies in
the fact that it is only possible to make decisions that are based on reliable and solid
information, which is why a cyclical process of data collection, decision-making and
evaluation of the results obtained is necessary.

Due to cost and time constraints, inventories are often carried out using sampling
techniques. The general principle of sampling is to select a subset from a population and
draw conclusions from the sample for the entire population. The selection of the most
appropriate sampling design is made based on several considerations (more information on
this can be found in the Tools section of this module). The two basic considerations are to
define whether the objective is to establish a monitoring system (repeated measurements
over time) and whether or not auxiliary information is available (that is, aerial photographs
or satellite images).

WHAT A FOREST INVENTORY IS FOR

-To be able to determine the amount of trees to be harvested and their profitability
-To be able to calculate the volume of wood in plantations
-To measure the height and diameter of the trees. (PDF, s.f.).

TYPES OF FOREST INVENTORY

Forest inventories can be classified as follows, depending on the method used by sampling:
- Inventories by foot to foot count.
- Inventories by statistical sampling.
- Inventories using other methods, such as transects, blocks, etc. (CERTICALIA, s.f.)
 IMPORTANCE OF A FOREST INVENTORY
It is important since:
• Because it allows us to carry out forestry extraction operations in an orderly manner.
• Knowing the forest in advance it is possible to foresee its opportune use and greater
economic benefit. (PDF, s.f.)

FOREST SAMPLING
The environmental management systems technologist of the Guaviare regional Seine went
to the biodiverse farm on March 4, 2020, the farm is located at kilometer 11 via
Villavicencio in order to prepare a forest inventory of the farm.
To carry out the inventory, the following implements were used: decameter, GPS
Essentials, tape measure and spreadsheets to store the collected data.
To begin with the collection of data for the forest inventory, the group divided the different
activities to speed up the work. The first thing we verified was that the shaft was greater
than 10 cm wide, this measurement is taken at the height of 1.30 cm CAP (cm) after this the
commercial height was calculated, which is the usable part of the tree and the total height is
the tree completely.
The coordinates of each of the trees were also collected to have the precision of where the
species that were included in the inventory are found, then the species of each tree was
identified.
With this we finalize the data collection in the field.
Then with the data already collected in the field, we identified the diameter at breast height
in meters DAP (m) and the CAP (m), basal area, volume and FFB, this was identified by
formulas in an Excel format with the data that had already been collected.
CAP (m): CAP (cm) divided into 100
DAP (m): CAP (m) divided into 3.1416
Basal area: 0.79 * DAP (m) 2
FFB: = 0.97983-0.08471 * DAP (m) -0.01327 * commercial height
Volume: 0.785 * DAP (m) 2 * commercial height * FFB
INFORMATION RECORD
 CONCLUCION

Determine the number of trees in the biodiverse farm km 11 and calculate the volume of
wood in plantations and native forest, the height and diameter of the trees should be
measured