<div dir="ltr">I went to school in landscape architecture and Azavea now does a lot of work in urban forestry and have an open source framework for urban forest inventory and ecosystem services benefit calculation, OpenTreeMap.<div><br></div><div>Robert</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><span></span><br>------------------<br>Robert Cheetham<div><br><div>Azavea <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> | 340 N 12th St, Ste 402, Philadelphia, PA</span><br><a href="mailto:cheetham@azavea.com" target="_blank">cheetham@azavea.com</a><span> | T <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice">215.701.7713</span></span></span></span><span> | F <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice">215.925.2663</span></span></span></span></span><br>Web <a href="http://www.azavea.com/" target="_blank">azavea.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> | Blog <a href="http://azavea.com/blogs" style="color:rgb(28,81,168)" target="_blank">azavea.com/blogs</a> | <span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:arial;font-size:small">Twitter</span> <a href="http://goog_858212415" target="_blank">@</a></span><a href="http://twitter.com/rcheetham" target="_blank">rcheetham</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/azavea" target="_blank">@azavea</a></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#073763"><i>Azavea is a <a href="http://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps" target="_blank">B Corporation</a> - we apply geospatial technology for civic and social impact</i></font></div><div><font color="#073763"><i>while advancing the state-of-the-art through research. <a href="http://jobs.azavea.com/" target="_blank">Join us</a>.</i></font><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:48 AM, P Kishor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com" target="_blank">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I came from env sciences, but did work in forestry ("hi Steve! its been a while!) for a couple of years before moving to geosciences and then leaving it all for policy. But as Steve says, some sciences are just more amenable to using the more readily available, good quality spatial data such as from remote sensing. Transportation, oil exploration, conservation, location-allocation and a few others such would join this bucket.<div><br></div><div>Actually, discipline-profile of the OSGeo membership would be cool, useless knowledge to have.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">MapServer came out of the University of Minnesota - Department of Forest Resources. One big reason was the widespread use of Landsat (and GIS in general) for inventory purposes. Forestry, at least in MN, was quick to embrace spatial technologies. Landsat in particular was at just the right resolution (spatial, radiometric) for that discipline.<br>
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Hi,<br>
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just wondering, how many members of your community do have their origin in forestry? Seems relatively many, wondering why.<br>
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I start with myself - I studied forestry at university of life science, Prague, after that I moved to (OS)GIS<br>
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Jachym<br>
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