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Summer Job Opportunity

Summer Job Opportunity. Developing forest stewardship plans as part of the statewide forest resource assessments Requires using geospatial technologies (learned in this class) Can be counted for internship credit $10 / hour Need 4 to 5 people Here on WVU campus Start as soon as possible

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Summer Job Opportunity

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  1. Summer Job Opportunity Developing forest stewardship plans as part of the statewide forest resource assessments • Requires using geospatial technologies (learned in this class) • Can be counted for internship credit • $10 / hour • Need 4 to 5 people • Here on WVU campus • Start as soon as possible • Flexible work schedule • Contact Steve Harouff at steven.e.harouff@wv.gov

  2. Final Exam Review FOR 326 Spring 2009

  3. Final Exam • Monday May 4th in this room • 3 to 5pm • Format (100 possible points) 10 true / false (1 point each) 10 multiple choice (2 points each) 10 short answer questions (3 points each) 8 longer answer questions (5 points each) • Covering lectures, exercises, readings • No calculator needed

  4. Things to keep in mind • Not a trivia test • Understand basic concepts • Major topics will dominate the test • Be able to integrate concepts to real world decisions or applications • If I gave you the same test six months from now …

  5. Lecture topics • Intro to geospatial technologies • Geospatial technologies in forestry • Spatial data and mapscale • Mapscale detail and projections • Electromagnetic energy and spectral properties • Photo properties and principals • Land use and cover mapping

  6. Topics cont’ • Vegetation mapping • Terrain analysis • Hydrological applications in forestry • LiDAR • Classification techniques • Accuracy assessment • GPS • 3D visualization and modeling

  7. 1. Intro to geospatial technologies • What are geospatial technologies and why do we need to know about them?

  8. 2. Geospatial technologies in forestry • What are some ways in which geospatial technologies can aid foresters do their job? • What are some things foresters should consider or understand before using geospatial technologies?

  9. 3. Spatial data and mapscale • How would you explain what is spatial data? • How is mapscale important in the planning of a particular project?

  10. 4. Mapscale detail and projections • How is map detail related to mapscale? • What are projections? • How concerned do I need to be about projections when managing a project with spatial data?

  11. 5. Electromagnetic energy and spectral properties • Why can we see what we see? • Why would we want to use a filter or lens to see infrared? • How do we interpret a spectral reflectance curve? • What are some adv and disadv of both color and color infrared film for use in forestry applications?

  12. 6. Photo properties and principals • Why is a photo not a map? • How should a flight plan be designed to capture all of the features on a property? • Why is it possible to see overlapping aerial photos in 3D?

  13. 7. Land use and cover mapping • Why is the USGS land use and land cover mapping scheme so necessary? • What is the difference between land use and land cover? • How do we decide the process to assign or classify the many land use and cover classes?

  14. 8. Vegetation mapping • What makes identifying individual tree species with remote sensing so difficult? • Explain how you would use a classification guide to aid in vegetation mapping. • What are some of the ways we can improve our prediction of vegetation species?

  15. 9. Terrain analysis • What dataset is needed for terrain analysis? • What other datasets can be derived from it? • How is terrain important to foresters?

  16. 10. Hydro applications in forestry • Why is it important to understand the hydrological properties of a forest treatment site? • What are some of the ways in which GIS and hydrological analysis can aid in proper forest management? • What are main datasets need to perform hydrological analysis?

  17. 11. LiDAR • What is it? • How does it work? • What can a forester use it for? • Comparison to other elevation data

  18. 12. Classification techniques • Who needs to extract information from an image? • What are some ways to extract information from an image? • What role does field work have in image classification?

  19. 13. Accuracy assessment • Why do we care how well an image is classified? • In general, how do we find out how good or bad an image was classified? • What is acceptable?

  20. 14. 3D visualization and modeling • Besides a pretty picture, what purpose does 3D visualization have for a forester? • What are some analysis capabilities available for 3D work? • What makes 3D visualization possible?

  21. 15. GPS • How accurate is the average GPS? • How accurate does a forester need GPS to be? • What are some things to consider when using a GPS unit?

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