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

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Dear Chris,
You are welcome to add your paper to the list here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_Volume_3

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Tyler

On 21-Sep-07, at 9:16 AM, Chris West wrote:

> 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