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 ------------------ Robert Cheetham Azavea | 340 N 12th St, Ste 402, Philadelphia, PA [email protected] | T 215.701.7713 | F 215.925.2663 Web azavea.com <http://www.azavea.com/> | Blog azavea.com/blogs | Twitter @ <http://goog_858212415>rcheetham <http://twitter.com/rcheetham> and @azavea <http://twitter.com/azavea> *Azavea is a B Corporation <http://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps> - we apply geospatial technology for civic and social impact* *while advancing the state-of-the-art through research. Join us <http://jobs.azavea.com/>.* On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:48 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> 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) < > [email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] 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 >> >> -- >> Jachym Cepicky >> e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com >> URL: http://les-ejk.cz >> GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp >> >> Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Puneet Kishor > Manager, Science and Data Policy > Creative Commons > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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