> Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover > using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a > nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent > vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep, but > it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas.... Clifford >
Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services to provide this information ... '*Many users want to see how much forest there is in a specified area, estimate its average age, and to see which tree species it contains. SLU Forest Map contains spatial information with a high degree of detail over most of Sweden's forestland. SLU Forest Map is based on a combination of data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory <https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/> and satellite data <https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm> ... SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or within our web based GIS application.*' ... including delivery to *MineCraft* ... ('Examples of the use of open geodata in Minecraft <http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#>') ... now that's Open Data! My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an inventory is is a non-trivial task <http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis>, especially maintaining it. A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and the forestry web service(s). Michael Patrick Data Ferret OSM Seattle
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