Desenvolvimento de software para uso em inventário florestal baseado em linguagem Julia

Abstract

The forest inventory is a technique responsible for evaluating the characteristics and changes in a forest at a certain period, such as the growth, development along with total and commercial volume of a forest population. In the course of forestry engineering, it is an important discipline in academic training. For the processing of collected data in the forest inventory, the use of software is already widespread. However, it is always important to search for alternative technologies to carry out this processing. Recondite in forest science, the Julia programming language can become a new option for processing these data from the forest inventory. The Julia programming language was developed over the past decade by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The language in relation to other languages presents a prominent advance in processing data, such as Just-In-Time, thus drawing the attention of researchers. As far as this, the objective of this work was to write and evaluate the functions of the 10 sampling processes existing in the book Forest Inventory by Pellico Netto and Brena (1997), using the Julia programming language. Throughout the study, the step by step that was performed in the structuring is described, so that it was possible to write the functions and how users can use them to process forest inventory data. The research attempts to demonstrate the application of a new language in the forest inventory, in addition to demonstrating the difficulty of inserting a new language and the challenges that the user may face. However, the work showed the potential of using The Julia programming for making a language accessible to academics, researchers and forest science professionals, without requiring a high degree of programming knowledge, which makes it potentially attractive to them.