Using LCTA land managers collect, store, retrieve, and analyze data such as topographic features, soil characteristics, climatic variables, vegetation, and wildlife information. The current LCTA Program Manager Version 1.x enables users to automate data analysis tasks.
Features allow the user to analyze plot data and automatically upload data from handheld data files.
Users can select data summaries that produce graphic and tabular results and generically query the database for installation specific information needs. Although the current version of the LCTA Users Interface and the SQLBase database are very good products many installations expressed interest in using Microsoft's Access database. Overview The Access LCTA database interface is written in Access's resident development environment. In addition, the LCTA database schema has been migrated to the Access database. Access LCTA takes full advantage of the Windows environment producing a very user-friendly program.