Firs DC is the bedrock of FIRS and has been developed to minimise both the in-field entry time and data management aspect of field collection. It has been developed for modern Android and Windows touch screen slate devices, with an intent to be affordable across a broad range of needs, from once-off users who

may merely wish to use their phone, through to professional forest inventory contractors looking for a daily-use ruggardised and optimised devoted device. The application has been designed to be intuitive and targeted for different complexities of data capture, with an emphasis on in-field validation and error minimisation.