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== General Categories ==
 
== General Categories ==
What types of workflow or features are required for managing forests?  Think broad, and then we can get into specifics later on.
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What types of workflow or features are required for managing forests?  Think broad, and then we can get into specifics in each category.
  
# GPS traversing
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=== GPS traversing ===
# Block, road, treatment area - design and capture
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General data capture to record paths, boundaries and locations using GPS.
# Mobile map platform
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* Ability to turn it on/off
# Inventory collection and analysis
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* Ability to capture multiple types of features
# Sample plot reconnaissance and survey
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# Terrain/slope computation
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=== Design and capture ===
# ...
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Block, road, treatment areas
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* Connect various attributes to GPS collected information
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* Custom input forms
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=== Mobile map platform ===
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Following current and planned locations
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* Map layer control on/off
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* Zoom, pan, query
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* Basic feature calculations - length, area, sum attributes
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* Show GPS,
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* Auto panning map via GPS
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=== Inventory collection and analysis ===
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Backend database and front end collection of inventory details
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* Offline database, with inventory schema
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* Auto form generation for particular feature types
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* Syncing with master db when back online
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=== Sample plot reconnaissance and survey ===
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...
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=== Terrain/slope computation ===
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...
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=== ... ===

Revision as of 09:52, 14 March 2012

What open source geo products have tools that may be specially useful for foresters and resource managers?

A discussion started on the QGIS-User list led to starting this page.

General Categories

What types of workflow or features are required for managing forests? Think broad, and then we can get into specifics in each category.

GPS traversing

General data capture to record paths, boundaries and locations using GPS.

  • Ability to turn it on/off
  • Ability to capture multiple types of features

Design and capture

Block, road, treatment areas

  • Connect various attributes to GPS collected information
  • Custom input forms

Mobile map platform

Following current and planned locations

  • Map layer control on/off
  • Zoom, pan, query
  • Basic feature calculations - length, area, sum attributes
  • Show GPS,
  • Auto panning map via GPS

Inventory collection and analysis

Backend database and front end collection of inventory details

  • Offline database, with inventory schema
  • Auto form generation for particular feature types
  • Syncing with master db when back online

Sample plot reconnaissance and survey

...

Terrain/slope computation

...

...