Objectives Leveraging modern information technologies and focusing on the core needs of forest-grassland resource survey and monitoring, this study proposed the construction of an intelligent forest-grassland survey and monitoring platform based on field-office collaborative design. The platform aimed to provide comprehensive, universal technical support for the entire process of collecting, processing, storing, analyzing, and applying forest-grassland resource information, thereby establishing a standardized technical system covering the full chain of monitoring businesses.

Methods By integrating new-generation information technologies, restructuring the business process system, an intelligent forest-grassland survey and monitoring platform featuring field-office collaboration was developed. The platform adopted a modular architecture and template-based configuration technology, employing an end-to-end business design approach. It created a closed-loop application ecosystem that integrated front-end data collection, office-based data processing, and resources service sharing.

Results The platform demonstrated high universality, supporting template dynamic on-demand configuration for any survey and monitoring project, including multi-source database architecture design, map classification rendering rules, data quality inspection schemes, high-quality cartography, and complex reports statistical and analysis. It could be widely applied to various types of forest and grassland survey and monitoring businesses, and effectively addressed the problems existing in traditional survey models—such as repeated construction of systems, decentralized data supervision, low coupling degree, poor update timeliness, and lagging data sharing, analysis and application—caused by different technical standard requirements. It represented a systematic upgrade and a conceptual innovation for the traditional forestr-grassland survey workflow.

Conclusions The intelligent forest-grassland survey and monitoring platform based on field-office collaborative design could provide universal technical support for various forest-grassland resource surveys. It significantly improved software reusability, reduced survey costs, and held important practical guiding significance for conventional forest-grassland resource monitoring, and effectively promoted the standardization and efficient development of industry operations.