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: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
