[Forest-list] 2014-11-23 NRMI: This Issue: What Are the Costs of Remote Sensing & GIS and Some Other Good Things.

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2014-11-23**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/What Are the Costs of Remote Sensing & GIS /*and Some Other 
Good Things.

*WHAT ARE THE COSTS OF REMOTE SENSING & GIS? – *This past September I 
was recently asked to do some background work on the costs of remote 
sensing and GIS. Here are some sites that may be of interest.

Al-Tahir, Raid et al. 2011. *Low Cost Aerial Mapping Alternatives for 
Natural Disasters in the Caribbean.* 
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228885503_Low_Cost_Aerial_Mapping_Alternatives_for_Natural_Disasters_in_the_Caribbean>**11 
p **

Anon. 20013? *Benefit-cost analysis for GIS project evaluation.* 
<http://courses.washington.edu/geog469/Lec_2013/LecW5_T_Bene_Cost.ppt>18 
Slides

Anthony, Egeru. 2012. *Shortcomings Common to Real Remote Sensing 
Systems* 
<http://www.academia.edu/1526418/Shortcomings_Common_to_Real_Remote_Sensing_Systems>. 
7 p.

Campbell, Joel F. et al. 2012? *A low cost remote sensing system using 
PC and stereo equipment.* 
<http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.2141.pdf>17 p.

Carfagna, Elisabette. 2001? *Cost-effectiveness of Remote Sensing in 
Agricultural and Environmental Statistics.* 
<http://www.ec-gis.org/docs/F22991/COST-EFFECTIVENESS%20OF%20REMOTE%20SENSING%20CAESAR.PDF>11 
p

Clark, Jay; Brussow, Chris. 2014. *Reducing costs and raising 
effectiveness with a GIS-centric Asset Management System* 
<http://www.waurisa.org/conferences/2014/presentations/Reducing%20Costs%20and%20Raising%20Effectiveness%20w%20a%20GIScentric%20Asset%20Management.pdf>. 
31 slides.

CSI, n.d. *19 Cost-effectiveness of Remote Sensing for Coastal 
Management Part A* <http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/rs14.htm>

El Guapo. 2012. *How much should a local government charge for GIS layer 
data?.* <http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47524>Cyburbia.

ESRI. 2012. *Estimating the Cost of a GIS in the Amazon™ Cloud.* 
<http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/estimating-cost-gis-cloud.pdf>Esri® 
White Paper. 21 p.

Gibbs, Holly K. et al. 2007. *Monitoring and estimating tropical forest 
carbon stocks: making REDD a reality* 
<http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/2/4/045023/fulltext/>. Environ. 
Res. Lett. 2 (October-December 2007) 0450

GIS Consultants. 2011? *Estimating GIS Return on Investment the 
Empirical Way Computing the Costs, Benefits, and ROI of GIS Products and 
Services.* 
<http://www.nsgic.org/public_resources/Estimating-GIS-Return-on-Investment-the-Empirical-Way.pdf>18 
p.

Green, Edmund P. et al. n.d. *Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical 
Coastal Management (extracts* 
<http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/rs.htm>*) *CSI.

IISAC. 1997. *VII. Estimate Costs* 
<http://www.gis.state.mn.us/iisac/gisindex.html>(GIS Minnesota). 
Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council

Klinkenberg, Brian. 2003. *The true cost of spatial data in Canada.* 
<http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/%7Ebrian/publications/true_cost.pdf>The 
Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 47(1): 37–49

Lewis, Conna, et al. 2013. *Cost-Effectiveness of Seven Approaches to 
Map Vegetation Communities — A Case Study from Northern Australia’s 
Tropical Savannas.* <http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/5/1/377>. Remote 
Sens. 5: 377-414; doi:10.3390/rs5010377.

Lund, H. Gyde. 1969. *Factors for computing photo coverage* 
<http://home.comcast.net/%7Egyde/1969photo_factors.pdf>*. *Photogram. 
Engr. 35(1): 61-63.

McHenry, Eric. 2009. *How GIS Can Save Money and Increase Efficiency for 
Cities* 
<http://www.westerncity.com/Western-City/June-2009/How-GIS-Can-Save-Money-and-Increase-Efficiency-for-Cities/>. 
Western City.

Mumby, P.J. 1999. *The cost-effectiveness of remote sensing for tropical 
coastal resources assessment and management* 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479798902559>. 
Journal of Environmental Management 55(3): 157-166.

National Research Council. 2001.*Transforming Remote Sensing Data into 
Information and Applications.* 
<http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10257> Washington, DC: The 
National Academies Press, 75 p.**

NYSDEC. 1995. *Sharing the Costs, Sharing the Benefits: The NYS GIS 
Cooperative Project* 
<http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/sharing_the_costs/sharing_the_costs.pdf>. 
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Center for 
Technology in Government Project Report 95-4. 62 p.

Obermeyer, N.J. 1998? *Measuring the benefits and costs of GIS.* 
<http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/%7Egisteac/gis_book_abridged/files/ch42.pdf>10 p.

Onsrud, Harlan J.1993? *In Support of Cost Recovery for Publicly Held 
Geographic Information* 
<http://www.spatial.maine.edu/%7Eonsrud/pubs/Cost_Recovery_for_GIS.html>**

Peterson, Emily. 2011. *Government can charge licensing fees for GIS 
data* 
<http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/government-can-charge-licensing-fees-gis-data>. 
Reporters Committee.

Rogan, John; Chen, DongMei. 2004. *Remote sensing technology for mapping 
and monitoring land-cover and land-use change* 
<http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/pdfs/Rogan%20%26%20Chen%202004.pdf>. 
Progress in Planning 61: 301–325.**

Timoney, Brian. 2012. *If Mapping is So Big, Why Does GIS Feel So 
Small?.* 
<http://mapbrief.com/2012/10/25/if-mapping-is-so-big-why-does-gis-feel-so-small/>MapBrief. 


UNFCCC. 2009. *Cost of implementing methodologies and monitoring systems 
relating to estimates of emissions from deforestation and forest 
degradation, the assessment of carbon stocks and greenhouse gas 
emissions from changes in forest cover, and the enhancement of forest 
carbon stocks.* 
<http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/tp/01.pdf>FCCC/TP/2009/1. 44 p.

Wimmer, Andreas et al. 2000. *Forest inventory by means of satellite 
remote sensing and laser scanning* 
<http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIII/congress/part7/1316_XXXIII-part7.pdf>. 
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. 
XXXIII, Part B7. 1316-1324

Xie, Yichun et al. 2008, *Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: 
a review* <http://jpe.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/1/9.full>. J Plant 
Ecol 1 (1): 9-23.

*SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Paniagua, Tony. 2014. *Experts: Fewer Trees May Result in Healthier 
Forests 
<https://news.azpm.org/p/bus-econ-news/2014/10/28/48092-experts-fewer-trees-may-result-in-healthier-forests/>*, 
Arizona Public Media.

Peh, K.S.H., et al. 2014. *Mixed-forest species establishment in a 
monodominant forest in Central Africa: implications for tropical forest 
invasibility 
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097585>*. 
PLoS ONE 9(5):e97585.

Peque, D.; Hölscher, D. 2014. *The abundance of rare tree species in 
remnant forests across the Visayas, Philippines 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-014-0714-6#page-1>. 
*Biodivers. Conserv. 23(9):2183-2200. Page 1.

Pereira, Luisa Gomes et al.2006?*Planning and Acquisition of Control 
Data to Validate Forest Inventory and the Estimation of Fuel Variables 
Derived from LiDAR Data and High Resolution CIR Images 
<https://www.repository.utl.pt/bitstream/10400.5/1739/1/REP-M.Tome-4-c6.pdf>*. 
Tema 4. 9 p.

Persson, Martin. et al. 2014. *Trading Forests: Quantifying the 
Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical 
Deforestation 
<http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/184983/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/b28aa1bf-4a77-45bf-94ea-5b7dca5c3950/en/CGD-Climate-Forest-Series-8-persson-et-al-trading-forests.pdf>.* 
CGD Working Paper 384. Abstract. From Steve Hunter, GeoHunter.

Rao, Mohit M. 2014. *Survey of deemed forests going slowly in Mangalore, 
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/survey-of-deemed-forests-going-slowly-in-mangalore/article6537276.ece>* 
The Hindu

Reddy, C.S., et al. 2014. *Threat evaluation for biodiversity 
conservation of forest ecosystems using geospatial techniques: a case 
study of Odisha, India. 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857414002158>* 
Ecol. Eng. 69:287-303 Abstract.

Resasco, J., et al. 2 014. *Landscape corridors can increase invasion by 
an exotic species and reduce diversity of native species. 
<http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/14-0169.1>* Ecology 
95(8):2033-2039.

Sada, Donald W.: Pohlmann, Karl F. 2002. *Spring Inventory and 
Monitoring Protocols. 
<https://www.dri.edu/images/stories/conferences_and_workshops/spring-fed-wetlands/spring-fed-wetlands-sada-pohlmann-protocol.pdf>* 
Conference Proceedings. Spring-fed Wetlands: Important Scientific and 
Cultural Resources of the Intermountain Region. 71 p.

Sah, B.P. et al. 2012. *The use of satellite imagery to guide field plot 
sampling scheme for biomass estimation in Ghanaian forest. 
<http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-4/221/2012/isprsannals-I-4-221-2012.pdf>* 
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., I-4, 221-226.

Sato, C.F., et al. 2014. *The impacts of ski resorts on reptiles: a 
natural experiment 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12095/abstract>*. Anim. 
Conserv. 17(4):313-322.

Schmeller, D.S., et al. 2014. *The national responsibility approach to 
setting conservation priorities - recommendations for its use. 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1617138114000259>* J. 
Nature Conserv. 22(4):349-357. Abstract.

Schmeller, Dirk S. et al. 2014. *The GIS-tool to determine conservation 
responsibilitie <http://eubon.eu/getatt.php?filename=oo_11359.pdf>s* 1 p.

Slavich, E., et al. 2014. *Topoclimate versus macroclimate: how does 
climate mapping methodology affect species distribution models and 
climate change projections? 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.12216/abstract>* Divers. 
Distrib. 20(8):952-963. Abstract.

Solow, A.R.; Beet, A.R. 2014. *On uncertain sightings and inference 
about extinction 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12309/abstract>*. 
Conserv. Biol. 28(4):1119-1123. Abstract.

Staff. 2014*. Animal campaigners demand aerial surveying of Kerala 
forests 
<http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/animal-campaigners-demand-aerial-surveying-of-kerala-forests_1490102.html>*, 
EcoNews

Staff. 2014*. If you plant different trees in the forest, is it still 
the same forest?. 
<http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/oct/19/-sp-forests-nature-conservancy-climate-change-adaptation-minnesota-north-woods>* 
The Guardian.

    Staff. 2014. *New Forest Land Classification Data Set Launched
    <http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Global_Land_Carbon_Intelligence___New_Forest_Land_Classification_Data_Set_Launched_999.html>*

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*IUFRO News *– Volume 43, Double Issue 10 and 11 may be accessed at 
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*Land Cover and Change Newsletter of the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project 
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*PhD Student in Remote Sensing of Forest - *The Townsend Lab 
(http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/townsend/ 
(http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/townsend/phil-townsend/)) at the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking Ph.D. students interested in 
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and ecology under different conditions (e.g., climate or disturbance). 
Funding for a 12-month research assistantship and tuition remission is 
available for a minimum of three years, pending satisfactory progress*. 
*For more details contact Dr. Townsend (ptownsend at wisc.edu 
<mailto:ptownsend at wisc.edu>). From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.**

*NEXT ISSUE: **/IPR (Intellectual Property rights), RS and GIS 
(Continued)/**//*

*Pay It Forward/– Cheers, Gyde/*

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