[Forest-list] 2012-01-08 NRMI: This Issue: Land Classification (Part 1 of 3) and Some Other Good Things

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2012-01-08**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue: */Land Classification (Part 1 of 3/)* and Some Other Good Things

*BUT FIRST, WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP? Research Papers required of Salix and 
Zizyphus - *Umair Masood Awan is seeking any research papers on 
silvicultural techniques of /Salix tetrasperma/ (willow) and /Zizyphus 
nummularia/. If you can assist, please contact Umair at awan48 at gmail.com 
<mailto:awan48 at gmail.com>.

*LAND CLASSIFICATION *-- Last year I was seeking publications on land 
classification systems. */Here is part 1 of 3/* that may be of interest 
to you:

5-Agency. 1982. *Recommended Land Use and Land Cover Terms and 
Definitions.* USGS, BLM, FWS, SCS, USFS. 45 p. Unpublished report. 
http://home.comcast.net/~gyde/5-agency_paper-2.doc 
<http://home.comcast.net/%7Egyde/5-agency_paper-2.doc>

Anderson, James R. et al. 1976. *A Land Use and Land Cover 
Classification System for use Use with Remote Sensor Data*. Geological 
Survey Professional Paper 964. A revision of the land use classification 
system as presented in U.S. Geological Survey Circular 671. 41 p. 
http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/anderson.pdf.

APA. 2001. *Land-based Classification Standards.* American Planning 
Association, LBCS Project. 168 p. 
http://www.planning.org/lbcs/standards/pdf/InOneFile.pdf

Briassoulis, Helen 2000. *Analysis of Land Use Change: Theoretical and 
Modeling Approaches.* Regional Research Institute, WVU. 
http://rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Briassoulis/contents.htm

CARA. 2006. *Land Use Primer.* Consortium for Atlantic Regional 
Assessment. http://www.cara.psu.edu/land/lu-primer/luprimer01.asp ,

Cihlar, Josef; Jansen, Louisa J.M. 2001. *From land cover to land use: A 
methodology for efficient land use mapping over large areas.* 
Professional Geographer 53(2): 275-289. Abstract. 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0033-0124.00285/abstract

Comber A.J. 2008. *Land Cover or Land Use,* Journal of Land Use Science, 
3(4): 199--201. 
https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/4827/1/3a.%20comber_editorial_final.pdf

Comber, A.J. 2008. *The separation of land cover from land use with data 
primitives.* Journal of Land Use Science, 3(4): 215--229. 
https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/4828/1/4a.%20comber_land_use_land_cover_final.pdf 


Comber, A.J.. et al. 2010. *Managing uncertainty when aggregating from 
pixels to objects: habitats, context-sensitive mapping and possibility 
theory.* International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(4): 1061-1068. 
Abstract. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160903246691

Di Gregorio, A.ntonio; Jansen, L.ouisa J.M. 2005. *Land Cover 
Classification System Classification concepts and user manual. *Revised. 
Software version (2) 
http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y7220e/y7220e00.htm#Contents .

Duhamel, Christophe. 1998. *First Approximation of a Reference Land Use 
Classification. *Final Report to the FAO (Food and Agriculture 
Organization of the United Nations) UN Contract CMT 133395. 33 p. 
http://www.fao.org/Ag/AGL/agll/landuse/docs/duhamel1998.doc .

EC 2001.*Manual of concepts on land cover and land use information 
systems.* 93 p. 
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-34-00-407-__-I-EN.pdf..

EEAC Working Group. 2008. *Globalisation, Land Use Change and the Common 
Agricultural Policy. *Activity Report 2007. Agriculture and Rural 
Development. 27 p. 
http://www.eeac-net.org/workgroups/pdf/080304_WG%20Agriculture_activity_report_07.pdf. 


Eiden, G.. 2001.? *Classification Systems -- Basic Principles and 
Concepts*. Classification Systems for Landscape Monitoring - Agroforum 
Centre Tune (DK), 11-12 October 2001.9 slides. 
http://www2.dmu.dk/1_Viden/2_Miljoe-tilstand/3_natur/nordlam/nldocs/wsOct01T1/geiden.pdf 


FAO. 1995. *Planning for Sustainable Use of Land Resources.* FAO Land 
and Water Bulletin 2. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the 
United Nations. http://www.fao.org/docrep/V8047E/V8047E00.htm

FGDC. 2008. *National Vegetation Classification Standard, Version 2*: 
Federal Geographic Data Committee Document FGDC--STD-- 005--2008 
(Version 2), 119 p. at 
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standardsprojects/vegetation/NVCS_V2_FINAL_2008-02.pdf

*SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Morales- Hidlago, David 2006. *Tree cover assessment: with special focus 
on the relative position issue, Case studies in open areas in Costa 
Rica.* Dissertation. http://www.openisbn.com/preview/3867270864/%20

Mukosha, Jackson; Siamaple, Abel. N.d. *Integrated Land Use Assessment 
(ILUS) 2005-2008 Republic of Zambia*. 147p. 
http://www.fao.org/forestry/17642-08c7545f2349615e80a6551745f51f62f.pdf

*National Geographic Photo of the Day (2011). *Great images -- free 
wallpaper. 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111202-best-news-pictures-national-geographic-top-ten/?source=email_inside 
**

Newton, A.C. 2011. *Implications of Goodhart's Law for monitoring global 
biodiversity loss*. Conserv. Lett. 4(4):264-268. Abstract. 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00167.x/abstract 


Palitza, Kristin. 2011.*Observing Deforestation from 
Space.*http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106036

Peral, A.T., et al. 2011. *Agriculture and conservation in Latin America 
in the 21st century: shall we celebrate the 'forest transition' or 
actively build the 'nature matrix'. *Interciencia 36(7):500-507. 
http://www.interciencia.org/v36_07/500.pdf

Pompa, S., et al. 2011. *Global distribution and conservation of marine 
mammals*. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108(33):13600-13605. 
Abstract.http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/07/26/1101525108.abstract

Saner, P., Loh, Y.Y, Ong, R.C., Hector, A. 2012. *Carbon Stocks and 
Fluxes in Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Rainforests in Sabah, Malaysian 
Borneo*. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29642. URL: 
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029642; 
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029642. From Philippe Saner.

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 2010. *Global 
Biodiversity Outlook 3.* Montréal, 94 p. http://www.unep.org/pdf/GBO3-en.pdf

Zyga, Lisa. 2012. *Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by 
wind*. http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-leonardo-da-vinci-tree.html. 
 From Dan Lund, No. 1 son.

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS.*See 
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http://scholar.google.com/, and**Directory of open access journals. 
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.

*BCN - *Biological Conservation Newsletter January 2012 - Issue No. 325 
now available at http://botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/issue/latest.htm

*NWFP-Digest-L -*The first issue of 2012 of FAO's NWFP-Digest-L, a free 
e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products, may 
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*SDI Newsletters*- The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Regional 
Newsletters for January 2012 are now posted on the GSDI home page at 
http://www.gsdi.org. You may also download them directly as follows:

*/SDI-Latin America and Caribbean Newsletter/*- 
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*/SDI-Africa Newsletter/*- http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=971 
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*/SDI-Asia Pacific Newsletter 
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*/Past and current SDI Regional newsletters/*are also accessible in the 
archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.php. Also posted here are 
the Newsletters from related associations: - FGDC (USA Federal 
Geographic Data Committee); - EuroGeographics (European association 
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(European association representing broad geospatial community); - GSDI 
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SALB, Second Administrative Level Boundaries

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions - 
http://scholarship-positions.com/ , Forestry, Arboriculture, 
Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/ 
, http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for 
International and Environmental Careers _http://ejobs.home.att.net/ _and 
Scholarship Listing _http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/_.

*Authors Sought*-Be part of a new edited volume addressing global 
climate change, tentatively titled World Turning: Race, Class, Gender, 
and Global Climate Change! For this unique volume, (publisher to be 
confirmed once submissions are), we are seeking contributions from 
academics and activists with experience and expertise in addressing the 
social dimensions of global climate change in their work, with a 
particular focus on intersections of race, class, gender, and other 
social markers. World Turning is intended to be a multidisciplinary 
reader that will introduce undergraduate and graduate students to the 
major issues and debates surrounding the study of intersectionality and 
global climate change. The volume will be broadly organized into 
sections on the social and natural sciences, as well as public health, 
art and literature. Specifically, we are seeking essays or articles 
between 15-25 pages (including notes) that address any aspect of climate 
change: legal, political, social, educational, agricultural, economic, 
religious, sexual, ideological, international, local, etc. and that 
incorporate an intersectional analysis. In addition, we are seeking 
original essays, poetry, investigative reporting or other creative works 
(including art) that also address climate change in relation to any form 
of activism. Contributions may be visual, empirical, theoretical or any 
other creative form, and may be between 1-20 pages (including notes). 
Preference will be given to original pieces but we may also consider 
previously published pieces. If you are interested in contributing, 
please submit a 500 word abstract of your piece (or details / examples 
of your art / activism) with the title, author, and institutional or 
organizational affiliation (if any) to Dr. Phoebe Godfrey at 
phoebe.godfrey at uconn.edu <mailto:phoebe.godfrey at uconn.edu>, Dr. Rachel 
Hallum-Montes at rhallum at ufl.edu <mailto:rhallum at ufl.edu> or Medani 
Prasad Bhandari mbhandar at maxwell.syr.edu 
<mailto:mbhandar at maxwell.syr.edu> or Dr. Shangrila Joshi 
joshis at denison.edu <mailto:joshis at denison.edu> by March 1st, 2012. From 
Medini Bhandar, GAOF list.

*PhD in Forest Modeling Complexity*- We are looking for a motivated PhD 
student to work on a modeling project that investigates the potential 
tradeoffs between managing forests for efficient provision of goods and 
services and adaptability in relation to global change factors and in 
the context of complex adaptive system theory. The project will be 
coordinated between the University of Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Oregon 
State University, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 
Umeå, Sweden; with the student being based at the UQAM, but travelling 
among the three universities. Required qualifications include a basic 
training in forestry, forest ecology, and forest economic and a strong 
background in quantitative sciences and modeling. To apply or for 
further information, send a letter of interest outlining your 
suitability and motivation, a CV, and a list of references to Klaus 
Puettmann (Klaus.Puettmann at oregonstate.edu 
<mailto:Klaus.Puettmann at oregonstate.edu>), Christian Messier 
(messier.christian at uqam.ca <mailto:messier.christian at uqam.ca>) or Jon 
Moen (Jon.Moen at emg.umu.se <mailto:Jon.Moen at emg.umu.se>). The candidate's 
acceptance will depend upon successfully obtaining a scholarship from 
the Forest Modeling Complexity program 
(http://www.fcm.uqam.ca/index.asp?lang=en). From Sebastiao Kengen

*FOREST FRAGMENTS -- *Last week, I mentioned 'Timber Tips' an old USFS 
publication that provided helpful hints to those that work in the field. 
I have since scanned the document and put it up on the web as follows:

USFS. 1986. *Timber Tips*.2400-Timber 8624 2813. USDA Forest Service 
Equipment Development Center, Missoula Montana. 48 p. Part 1 -- pages 
1-20: http://home.comcast.net/~gyde/1986tips1-20.pdf; Part 2 -- pages 
21-28: http://home.comcast.net/~gyde/1986tips21-48.pdf 
<http://home.comcast.net/%7Egyde/1986tips21-48.pdf>.

Using that as a guide, I am seeking any techniques you may have on 
improving field, office or even daily routines that I can share with 
fellow list members in this secton. Any suggestions you submit should be 
short (preferably around a paragraph, but no longer than one page). 
Please include a short title of your suggestion, your name and email 
address with your submission and send to gyde at comcast.net 
<mailto:gyde at comcast.net>.

*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

-- 
H. Gyde Lund
Forest Information Services
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