https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/forestry/ Recent content in Forestry on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-22-self-hosted-forest-inventory-monitoring-openforis-collect-arena-ceo/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-22-self-hosted-forest-inventory-monitoring-openforis-collect-arena-ceo/ <p>National forest inventories still run on spreadsheets emailed between field crews, and that is exactly where the data dies. A single country-level inventory can involve <strong>thousands of plots, dozens of field teams, and five-year reporting cycles</strong> — and if your data pipeline is a shared drive, you are one laptop failure away from re-measuring a forest. The Open Foris stack is the most complete open-source answer to this problem that exists, and unlike most scientific software, all of it runs on infrastructure you control.</p>