As a solution designed for foresters by foresters, Remsoft approaches product development with speed, usability, and global sustainability in mind. Our 2024.08 Woodstock Optimization Studio update aligns with these goals. The release includes upgrades to the formulation of optimization models for creating carbon project baselines and scenarios, enhanced yield visualizations, new keyword functionalities and updated reports to improve efficiency and precision.
With this update, we continue to simplify how you manage your forestry planning projects, while addressing emerging needs for holistic forest management that includes carbon and improves sustainability performance. Here’s what’s new in the Woodstock Optimization Studio.
New Product Alert!
Carbon Management Extension
With the launch of our new Carbon Management extension, we continue to support best practices and facilitate compliance in your approach to carbon sequestration and carbon credit estimations. The new Carbon Management capabilities enable you to streamline and speed up your carbon modeling while also producing more accurate estimations.
With this extension, you can produce faster, more accurate carbon estimations while confidently meeting compliance requirements with Woodstock technology that meets leading carbon crediting standards and is American Carbon Registry-approved. Contact Us to discover how we can enhance your carbon management projects with accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
New Features and Functionality
Woodstock Optimization Studio Updates
New ‘Show Current Value’ Feature
Whether you need to quickly re-evaluate your work or pass on information to key stakeholders, having the ability to quickly view key data is not only a time saver, but can also improve team decision making by providing pertinent data when you need it. The new Show Current Value Feature allows you to quickly access summarized or detailed yield data for any compiled models or scenarios, giving you instant insight into yield values without extensive data retrieval.
Enhanced Keywords for Modeling
This release introduces new and improved keywords to streamline your modeling process. Utilizing these keywords will help you to complete work faster and with greater modeling precision.
- The Not! operator for excluding specific attributes in masks.
- Big M Enhancements that improve MIP solve times with right-sized values.
- Sourced Theme-Based Levels for concise theme attribute declarations that simplify model creation.
- New Integrator Functions for efficient model updates and precise control over SQLite table updates.
Reports Functionality Updates
Reporting is the lifeblood of your forestry management and modeling practices, and we hope these new reporting enhancements will continue to make your life easier, view the data you need faster, and ultimately improve how your team makes critical decisions about the life of your managed forest. Reporting updates include:
- Improved consistency in structure across reports.
- Enhanced error trapping for increased reliability.
- Renamed ambiguous columns for better clarity.
- Improved and updated documentation.
Read the 2024.08 Release Notes for a full list of what’s included and download the update here.
Feedback and Support
As always, your feedback is welcome. If you have any suggestions for new features that could bring value to your planning workflows, please email us at support@remsoft.com.
For any technical support or assistance with this release, please contact support@remsoft.com. Our Support team is ready to help.
