[OSGeo-Discuss] forestry at OSGeo

[Robert Cheetham]

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.

Robert


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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:48 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Actually, discipline-profile of the OSGeo membership would be cool,
> useless knowledge to have.
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
> Steve.Lime at state.mn.us> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
>> discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 8:59 AM
>> To: OSGeo Discussions
>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] forestry at OSGeo
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just wondering, how many members of your community do have their origin
>> in forestry? Seems relatively many, wondering why.
>>
>> I start with myself - I studied forestry at university of life science,
>> Prague,  after that I moved to (OS)GIS
>>
>> Jachym
>>
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