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775 - Digitize features from high-resolution (sub-meter or better) digital color infrared aerial images, and identify the regionally important stand types and non-forest vegetation and landcover types. Apply basic and intermediate vector editing techniques, in

Digitize features from high-resolution (sub-meter or better) digital color infrared aerial images, and identify the regionally important stand types and non-forest vegetation and landcover types. Apply basic and intermediate vector editing techniques, including point and stream-mode digitizing, polygon auto-completion, selecting, clipping, and merging polygons, and splining and smoothing. The students can create topologically correct vector line and polygon layers, enforcing completeness and planarity as necessary in the data they create, and perform basic attribute table creation and manipulation.

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[DA-016] GIS&T and Forestry

GIS applications in forestry are as diverse as the subject itself. Many foresters match a common stereotype as loggers and firefighters, but many protect wildlife, manage urban forests, enhance water quality, provide for recreation, and plan for a sustainable future. A broad range of management goals drives a broad range of spatial methods, from adjacency functions to zonal analysis, from basic field measurements to complex multi-scale modeling. As such, it is impossible to describe the breadth of GIS&T in forestry. This review will cover core ways that geospatial knowledge improves forest management and science, and will focus on supporting core competencies.