Abstract: There is a close correlation between the application of spatial statistics and the studied fields,and the calculation of spatial statistics is very complicated,so some relevant computer software supports are necessary so as to apply the spatial statistics in practice. The forestry has itself field characteristics,however,in the forestry field,few involves in the work for the design and development of the computer software supporting the specific application of spatial statistics in China and other countries. In this paper,some situations of domestic and foreign spatial statistics software were introduced,the necessity of developing forestry spatial statistics software was expounded,and the general design ideas of forestry spatial statistics software were put forward. The function of each part of software was designed and described in details from the angle of function requirement of software. Finally,the methods and strategies of realizing the forestry spatial statistics software were pointed out.

Key words: forestry, spatial statistics, software design