[Tagging] Forestry/logging

[Michael Patrick]

> 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.... Clifford
>

Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services
to provide this information ... '*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 Swedish National Forest Inventory
<https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/>
and satellite data <https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm>
...  SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or
within our web based GIS application.*'

... including delivery to *MineCraft* ...  ('Examples of the use of open
geodata in Minecraft
<http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#>')
... now that's Open Data!

My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an
inventory is is a non-trivial task
<http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis>,
especially maintaining it.

A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and
the forestry web service(s).

Michael Patrick
Data Ferret
OSM Seattle
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