GIS-6: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Order No:

GIS-6

Total Length:

180 minutes



Understanding Relationships Between Farm Management Practices And Groundwater Contamination Using A GIS

Reference No:

GIS 6-1

Initial results of a study using GIS spatial analysis techniques to identify and elucidate the relationships between farm management activities and nitrate levels found in farm groundwater wells. Influences of terrain and subsurface conditions are also evaluated using map overlay.

Lecturer:

  • Peter G. Thum, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

30 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-24-5

 

Digital Forest Management: Canfor's Experience

Reference No:

GIS 6-2

Canfor's Englewood Division acquired GIS two Years ago, developing the framework necessary to digitally manage a 200,000 hectare Tree Farm License. This video focuses mainly on the role GIS played in the Management and Working Plan. It addresses issues of current and long-term wood supply; the 200-year horizon, silviculture regimes, and habitat requirements. GIS was used in conjunction with a forest estate model to test numerous management scenarios. Important issues included the decision to load 'dirty' data, the acquisition of contour data, networking data, raster/vector processing, restructuring for feature codes, and becoming a 'beta' test site for GIS software.

Lecturer:

  • Philip Winkle, Appraiser, Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Woss, British Columbia

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

23 minutes

 

GIS In Forestry Taxation In Finland

Reference No:

GIS 6-3

VENLA, the Finnish forest taxation GIS system, controls forestry taxation data, supplies the data to the databases for taxation calculations, demonstrating remarkable improvements in forest classification and updating. The economic estimates show it to be profitable.

Lecturer:

  • Esko Korpi-Hyovalti, National Board of Taxation, Helsinki, Finland

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

24 minutes

 

GIS And Sustainable Development In Forest Management

Reference No:

GIS 6-4

Sustainable development is that which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Support for the sustainable development is something on which both impassioned environmentalists and hard-nosed business leaders can agree. This presentation explores the differences between sustained yield and sustainable development as well as recommendations to integrate economic and ecological considerations in decision-making.

Lecturer:

  • Allan G. Levinsohn, A.G. Levinsohn Consulting, Edmonton, Alberta

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

30 minutes

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-12-1, GIS-12-2

 

A GIS Application For The Filed Resource Manager

Reference No:

GIS 6-5

The Phase II EPPL Shell is a PC-based GIS tool that the field natural resource manager can use to access and spatially analyze forest inventory data.

The shell is a menu driven interface To EPPL7, a raster-based GIS. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, is presently implementing the shell in field offices. It is being used to supplement traditional forest stand level decision-making, to plan and do field work more efficiently, and to overcome limitations of the present forest inventory design. The tool is enabling field managers to better resolve forest land management conflicts caused by increasing demands on the forest resource.

Lecturer:

  • Dave Martodam, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, St. Paul, MN

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

21 minutes

 

Resource Management Using Statistical And Spatial Modeling

Reference No:

GIS 6-6

This presentation examines the directions of raster processing with an emphasis on statistical and spatial modeling. Key components are the use of statistical and spatial operators for GIS analysis and Boolean logic for image processing for feature extraction and land cover classification. The use of 32-bit real numbers instead of just 8 and 16-bit integers and the integration of ancillary data are all important in predictive models and as tools for expert systems capabilities. The result of the integration is a raster modeling language that not only replicates vector GIS capabilities, but also offers the tools for statistical modeling that are essential for the predictive models of the 1990s.

Lecturer:

  • Andrew Bury, Erdas Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

23 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1992

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-9-1

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