Terga Recursos successfully implemented handheld use for the first time in the National Forest Inventory work in Mexico.

Six supervision crews used handheld computers with keyboards (CC) in various regions of Mexico. This is the first time that handhelds are used in a national forest inventory in Mexico.

Terga Recursos designed a database application for use with the handhelds using EASYDC, which is software that was developed in Canada. This application was specifically built to facilitate data entry by the crews directly in the field.

An interface in Microsoft Access was also built to migrate the data into the data entry client developed by CONAFOR, which included strict validations.

This system effectively reduced the time needed to deliver the information to CONAFOR and increased data quality by optimizing its processing.