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How-to guides · 38 guides

Measure your woods, track them over time, and prove it — step by step.

Every task in Silva Perpetua, from setting up a client to the certification pack: the web app at the desk, the field app in the wood. Each step matches a numbered mark on a real screenshot.

Methods, establishment profiles and grant checklists differ by country: choose yours and every guide puts it first.

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Your region

Choose where your woodland is. The guides then show the methods recommended there first, its establishment profiles and grant checklists, and fold away what applies elsewhere — nothing is removed. Your choice is kept on this device; change it at the top of any page.

Start here

Pick what describes you — each path is in the order you will need it.

Consultant forester

You manage stands for clients.

Field crew

You measure in the wood, often offline.

Woodland owner

You read how your woodland is doing.

Organisation admin

You run the practice’s account.

Three things that hold everywhere

The app proposes; you decide. Layouts, marking quotas, voice and camera values, imports — nothing is saved or scored until a person accepts it.
Labels are honest. Provisional means the rule data awaits confirmation; a trend is not a forecast; IBP is potential, not a species guarantee.
The client owns the data. Owners can read everything and export it all, and can move to another consultant.

Get started

Set up your organisation, your woodlands and what you measure.

Getting startedCreate your organisation, sign in on the web and on the phone, and take the three set-up steps that get a stand ready for the field.10 minutes Users, roles and invitesAdd foresters and admins to your organisation, give a woodland owner read-only access to their own woodland, and know what each role can do.5 minutes Set up clients, properties, compartments and standsAdd a woodland owner, their property with its boundary, the compartments and the stands you will measure — drawing boundaries on the map or importing them.15 minutes per property Choose methods and set targetsPick the method for each topic — the one designed for the stand’s region is recommended — and set the objective each topic is judged against, with a live preview and a what-if on your latest visit.10 minutes per stand Plan a field visitCheck the stand is ready, let the layout generator propose plots with the precision to expect, accept them, and add relocation details so the crew can re-find each plot for years.10 minutes per stand

Field app

Short guides to follow in the wood: get ready, run a visit, find plots, photos, voice, instruments, time and sync.

The field app — 8 short guidesGet ready, Run a visit, Find your plots, Photos & camera DBH, Voice notes, Instruments & gloves, Visit & time log, Sync & conflictsOpen the section →

Measurements

One guide per method: what it measures, how to lay it out and record it, and how to read the result.

Measurements — 12 short guidesStand structure (BDq), AFI, Target diameter & control, Tree marking, Biodiversity (IBP), Establishment survey, Browsing (WHIA & regional), Regeneration, Deadwood, Health & damage, Windblow & stability, Post-harvest checkOpen the section →

Review & results

Confirm what came back, then read each stand over time.

Review what came backEverything assisted or imported — voice-note proposals, camera and instrument values, imports, a marking session’s intervention — waits for a person to accept, edit or reject it. Here is where to find it and how to decide.6 minutes Read your resultsHow a stand is doing at a glance, each topic over time against its target, the trend and when it might reach the target, and the full evaluation behind every number.7 minutes History, timeline and before/after photosEverything that happened to a stand on one list, the visit and time log, and photos of the same plot paired either side of each intervention.4 minutes

Bring data in

Spreadsheets, field sheets, GIS files, map layers and datasets.

Import anythingBring in a spreadsheet, CSV, Word or PDF file, a photo of a field sheet or a map file. The app proposes how to read it, converts every value itself, shows you the result beside the original, and stores nothing until you confirm.8 minutes Map layers and datasetsPut drone orthophotos, satellite or LiDAR tiles and public constraint layers on the property map, use them as exclusions for plot layouts and as landscape context, and explore datasets such as cull records.5 minutes Switch from spreadsheetsMove years of tally sheets and inventory spreadsheets into the app stand by stand, so your history becomes the first points of each stand’s trend — without retyping.6 minutes, then about 15 minutes per stand

Plan, evidence & reports

The plan register, grant evidence and the reports you send.

Planned work and work doneKeep the schedule of planned actions from the management plan, record the interventions that happen, link one to the other, and see planned against done — with overdue lines, variances and justifications.6 minutes Grant evidence: scheme checklists and payment evidenceCheck what a grant scheme asks for against what the app holds — WIS CCF and the afforestation 2nd instalment in Ireland, LISS and the FGS stocking return in Scotland, Countryside Stewardship WD2 and EWCO in England — see the gaps, and produce the payment-evidence report.7 minutes Reports: owner report, five-year review, certification pack, payment evidenceGenerate dated reports from live data — for the owner, for the five-year review, for the certification audit and for grant claims — for one property or your whole book, as HTML or PDF.7 minutes

Owners & your data

What woodland owners see, and how the data stays theirs.

For woodland ownersWhat you see when your forester gives you access — how your woodland is doing in plain words, the reports and photos — and how you can export everything or move to another consultant.5 minutes Your data: export, transfer, privacy and AI processingThe client owns their woodland data. How to export it all, move a client to another organisation, what is stored where, and what is sent to AI services and when.5 minutes

Reference

Terms explained, and answers when something is not working.

GlossaryThe terms used in the app and these guides, in plain words.Look up as needed Troubleshooting and FAQAnswers for when sync, offline maps, GPS, Bluetooth, imports or sign-in do not behave as expected.Look up as needed

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