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Softree Technologies is a North Vancouver, BC based company that develops software for the forestry, civil engineering, and energy industries.
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RoadEng
RoadEng is the original software program developed by Softree Technologies, with early adopters including government agencies like the USDA Forest Service. Early versions of the software had three modules: road notes (where a surveyor enters their field notes), grade design, and plan view. The program is a forest-road-design system, that allows people to easily determine where the best extraction paths would be for timber or other wilderness-based primary resources, especially the alignment of the roads needed for the extraction of the resource and the insertion of the machinery needed to extract it. It utilizes 3D approximations of the environment and allows individuals to pre-plan their projects. It is able to accept data produced by hand by surveyors, or produce approximations based upon other variables.
Terrain Tools
Terrain Tools is a civil engineering software product that is available for professional engineers, but also targets the userbase of individual researchers or small budget groups with a freeware version of its software. It accepts survey data into its program, in order to plot coordinates visually and statistically for the user.
Softree Optimal
SoftreeOptimal is a mathematical technique to automatically determine the lowest cost vertical alignment for corridor based infrastructure projects such as roads, pipelines and railways. It was developed by the University of B.C. and Softree Technical Systems Inc in 2012 based on a Mixed (Integer programming) model. SoftreeOptimal accounts for excavation, grading and material movement costs while matching user criteria such as design speed, cross section configuration, and horizontal alignment, SoftreeOptimal uses a new (patent pending) mathematical optimization methodology which guarantees optimality, while accounting for detailed design conditions.