Preparation of the forest management planning maps with geographical information systems

Preparation Of The Forest Management Planning Maps With Geographical Information Systems SUMMARY Forests are accepted by one of the natural resources. Protection of characteristics of the forests is created by a continuous and tidy management, only. Forest products necessity of the people which is getting increasing can compensated by such a management. At the same time, people can improved by several functions are offered by forest's own constitution. The main property of such plannig the improving as a continuous and tidy of the forests is forest management plans. True decision of users, increasing the production and however saving time, money and human force and an organizing collection of the computer hardware, software, geographical data, and personal designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyse, and display all forms of geograpghically referenced information. Accordingly, Ormanüstü planning unit which is contain about 6000 hectares field has been chosen as a searching object. A geographical data base has been created by entering the graphical and non-grophical datas which belong to this field into the computer. These information are stored by using ARC/INFO programme that is a geographical information system software. Nevertheless the necessary analysing procedure is created and as stand types, age classes, productivity, cutting plan such maps take part in the forest management plans and function, tree volume maps and inclanation maps do not take part in the plans but are an obligation to create for our forests, any more have been prepared. In this study all the forest management planning maps have been obtained as a digital in the computer. Key words : Forest Management Plan, Geographical Information Systems, Data Base, Graphical Data, Non-Graphical Data IX