Research areas have included:

• Stand growth calibration
• Forest productivity prediction
• Development of the Open Stand Model
• Spruce budworm impact mitigation analysis
• Spatial automation and optimization of aerial spray treatment blocking for forest protection planning
• Individual tree imputation from LiDAR

Active software development continues to focus on enhancement of the Open Stand Model application programming interface, which was started in 2012. Open Stand Model is an Application Programming Interface that speeds up development of regionally calibrated individual-tree forest models. This has been a collaborative open-source software project involving FORUS Research and an increasing number of public and private organizations in eastern North America.

Solution services included tree taper and product volume calculations, forecasting stand development, spruce budworm decision support, site productivity prediction, forest inventory design and LIDAR, forest carbon life cycle accounting, and forest planning optimization.

Commercial software solutions have included a variety of forest modelling tools within the FORUS Studio desktop application, such as the Simulation Framework, Slasher, and ForPRO apps, as well as a number of other niche applications for developing Woodstock models, machine learning, LiDAR-enhanced forest inventories, and forest carbon models. The software provides scalable, flexible approaches to manage and analyze large forest data very quickly.