[Tagging] Forestry/logging

[Vao Matua]

This is an interesting discussion.  As a tree farmer and professional
forester I am offended by the suggestion that a harvested area is different
landuse from areas that are in other stages of forest growth.
I understand the need to avoid current logging operations, but I would say
that crowd sourced mapping is not the place to get that information. There
are so many basic features missing from OSM, spending effort to collect
vegetative landcover seems like a lower need, especially considering the
fact that in a relatively short period of time the vegetative signature
will be different.

Emmor Nile
Palolo

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I would also like to know when a harvest is planed, so I can avoid the
>> area when that is taking place (traffic, noise and dust).
>>
>> Where an area has been clear felled, replanted and is now thick.. they
>> usually do a selective harvest to thin it out and leave the best trees for
>> future harvest. So there may be a need to tag that too?
>>
>> Other crops of a long term nature? The ones I can think of are all tree
>> related e.g. sandalwood.
>>
>> Satellite imagery is not much use for this.
>
>
> Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover
> using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a
> nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent
> vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep, but
> it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas. I live in an area that
> is next to forested areas that is constantly being clear cut - with only
> logging roads to show human involvement. Being in the US's Pacific
> Northwest, I have to look for late fall to get cloud free imagery.
>
> If you do consider using data you derive, you definitely need to discuss
> it on the import list as well as with your local community.
>
> Clifford
>
> [1] https://lv.eosda.com
>
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