[Journal] Feedback: [FOSS4G Proceedings] Using Open Source to analyze Canada's National Forest Inventory

[Chris West]

Category: FOSS4G Proceedings

I'm submitting the FOSS4G Presentation topic "Using Open Source to analyze
Canada's National Forest Inventory" for consideration as an article in
OSGeo. The following is the abstract submitted for FOSS4G:

Canada’s new National Forest Inventory (NFI) is designed to asses and
monitor the extent, state and sustainable development of Canada’s
forests. Canada’s National Forest Information System (NFIS Canada)
project office has developed a suite of applications based on Open Source
technologies to analyze all spatial information required to report on the
NFI.

The NFI design elements are based on a network of sampling points across
Canada with a stratification of the sampling points by terrestrial
ecozones with varying sampling intensity amount the strata. Estimation of
area and other attributes from remote-sensing through 2km by 2km photo
plots are required. Layers of information for each photo plot include:
land cover, land user, land ownership and protection status. Also included
are layers of information collected by satellite imagery and classified for
land cover. All these layers of information are rasterized to a 5 meter by
5 meter grid of 160,000 cells for each photo plot. These cells are used
for analysis and for future change detection applications.

The NFIS project office has developed a suite of applications utilizing
geospatial open source technologies to aid in the processing of these
180,000+ photo plot layers. These technologies include that of: UMN
Mapserver, Proj4, GDAL, OGR, Geotools, and PostGIS.


Thank you for your consideration,

Chris West

Geospatial Analyst          Analyste des géospatiales 
Natural Resources Canada,   Ressources naturelles Canada     
Canadian Forest Service,    Service Canadien des forêts      
Pacific Forestry Centre,    Centre de foresterie du Pacifique 
506 West Burnside Road,     506, chemin Burnside ouest       
Victoria, BC                Victoria, (C.-B.),               
CANADA V8Z 1M5              CANADA V8Z 1M5      
             
Tel: (250) 363-3212         Facs: (250) 363-0775 




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