World Wide Heuristics Solutions

Product Line Overview

Timber Cruise (TCruise) is the heart of Heuristic Solutions Timber Cruising System product line. The program accepts data from plot, point, double point, or segmented strip cruises of stratified, or non-stratified tracts, and prepares reports by product showng volumes, sampling errors, and the sample sizes required to adchieve stated levels of precision. Volume reports by product and dbh class are optionally available. Reports showing total, and per acre timber tract dollar values by product can be printed if the user inputs current stumpage prices

Cruise data can be input from tally sheets using TCruises built-in spread sheet, and paper tally interfaces, or down loaded from a data recorder. The companion products Timber Cruise for the Haglof Mantax Computer Caliper (TCaliper), Timber Cruise for Palm Sized PCs using Windows CE 2.11, or Pocket Sized PCs running Windows CE 3.00 (TCWinCE), and Timber cruise for Palm OS (TCPalmPilot) produce download ascii formatted cruise data that can be imported directly into TCruise. Data from other data recorders can be accommodated using TCruise's advanced custom data import dll procedure.

The program Tree Volume Equation and Table Generator (TVolume) incapsulates all of the 100 plus tree profile equations built into TCruise, into a program that can produce local or standard volume equations or tables for most species in the Southern, and Southeastern US. These equations or tables can imported into other cruise programs, or used develop to programs to cruise for speciality products. We are now making a major effort to locate, and include profile functions to cover the Lake, North Eastern, and Western states.

While TCruise has built-in tree profile functions for many species, it may not have a profile function suitable for all of your commercial tree species. To provide the individual user a mechanism for independently expanding TCruise's profile function list, a program called Tree Profile Fitter (TProfile) was developed. This companion product allow the user to collect tree profile data on sample trees of the desired species, input the data using a spread sheet interface, and fit a selected tree profile function to the data. The fitted profile function can then be imported into TCruise, or TVolume and used like a built-in function. TProfile makes it easy to expand TCruise to meet your requirements.

TCruise GPS Navigator (TCGPSNavigator) is a GPS navigation tool and land area calculation tool. The program is easy to use and allows the user to quickly navigate to specific plot location, send TCruise the lng/lat, and ID of the plot, and calculate in the field the area of a GPS Traverse. Land area can be calculated using the map projections of Universal Transvers Meractor (UTM), Transverse Mercator (TM), Alber's equal area, State Plain, Poly Conic, and, Lambert Conformal Conic, and for large areas as a sperical polynomial. The program is designed to work with piggy-back GPS pods such as those available for Juniper Systems' Allegro Field Computer, and Symbol's rugged Pocket PCs. TCGPSNavigator will also work equally well with external GPS units attached by serial cable. TCGPSNavigator is extremely easy to operate because of it's word menu system, and because it does not have a complex mapping interface.

Other products available from World Wide Heuristics Solutions are a log scaling program for Pocket PC ((LogScaleCE) that supports barcode readers, and an infrared file transfer for copying files between Pocket PCs and/or Hand Held PCs.

The major features of the TCruise product line are



TCruise - A professional level timber inventory data summary program that can accept input from paper tallies, and a wide variety of data recorders
TCGPSNavigator - A powerful GPS navigation and GPS traverse land area calculation tool for Windows CE
TCWinCE - The Windows CE field data collection program for TCruise
TCPalmPilot - The TCruise field data collection for computers running the Palm Pilot OS
TCaliper - The TCruise field data collection software for Haglof's Mantax Computer Caliper
TProfile - A tree profile function developer to allow TCruise, and TVolume users to add to custom profile functions to obtain volumes for species not found in the built-in profile list
TVolume - A program for generating tree volume tables, and functions from profile functions. The program will also fit an approximating volume function to an external volume table