Abstract: The design object and function of digital forestry platform which aimed at the character of Chinese forestry information construction was been expatiated in detail in this paper. The structure of digital forestry platform was been put forward,which used service-oriented architecture and grid technique for design guide line.The general design included the constituted structure of digital forestry platform,the function of the each part and their working mechanism.A new method of types of forestry information sharing and multi-management level and multi-operation field cooperative working was provided by our digital forestry platform.Digital forestry platform had very important direction meaning for forestry information development,because of its use to construct multi-level forestry information system from nation、province、city to county.

Key words: digital forestry, service-oriented architecture, grid techniqne