<div dir="ltr">I think this is a great solution.<div>It is not possible to over-estimate the amount of work and skill involved in classification of imagery from any source. It is great for the OSM community to think that we can map the streets of the world, it is a different matter to map vegetation types.</div><div><br></div><div>Emmor</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Michael Patrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geodesy99@gmail.com" target="_blank">geodesy99@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"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover<br>
using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a<br>
nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent<br>
vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep, but<br>
it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas.... Clifford<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services to provide this information ... '<i>Many users want to see how much forest there is in a
specified area, estimate its average age, and to see which tree species
it contains.
SLU Forest Map contains spatial information with a high
degree of detail over most of Sweden's forestland. SLU Forest Map is
based on a combination of data from the <a href="https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/" target="_blank">Swedish National Forest Inventory</a> and <a href="https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm" target="_blank">satellite data</a> ... SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or within our web based GIS application.</i>'<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">... including delivery to <i>MineCraft</i> ... ('<a href="http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#" target="_blank"><span class="m_7234856432368606791gmail-noindex" lang="sv"><font><font class="m_7234856432368606791gmail-">Examples of the use of open geodata in Minecraft</font></font></span></a>') ... now that's Open Data!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an inventory is is a <a href="http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis" target="_blank">non-trivial task</a>, especially maintaining it. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and the forestry web service(s).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Michael Patrick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Data Ferret<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">OSM Seattle<br></div></font></span></div>
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