Forest inventory teams use QField across the full inventory chain:

• Plot location, geometry, and attribute capture, including fixed-radius, variable-radius, and strip sampling
• Tree-level data with species, DBH, height, defects, and per-tree position
• Photo documentation against individual trees and at the plot level
• Regeneration counts, deadwood and snag inventory, and understory observations
• Stand-level attribute capture for inventory polygons

Designed for crews of mixed experience

Forest inventory often runs on a mix of staff, contractors, and seasonal hires. QField forms can be tuned to the experience level of the crew. Strict dropdowns and numeric constraints make it safe to put a tablet in the hands of a first-week volunteer and trust that the data coming back will be in the same shape as a senior biologist’s. The structured frontmatter also means that a crew of twelve produces a single clean dataset, not twelve incompatible notebooks.

One workflow with QGIS and QFieldCloud

Set up the plot design in QGIS . Push it to every device through QFieldCloud . Crews work offline for as long as the survey takes, then sync when they next come into office connectivity. Conflict-safe merges handle the case where two crews edited the same record.

Forestry teams using QField for inventory

• Young farmers reduce deforestation by 71% in Ghana , where community-based monitoring teams use QField in the Tano Offin Forest Reserve
• Browse all forestry success stories →

Looking for the broader picture? See QField for forestry and silviculture → .