2015 FOSS4G Track: Developing, Exploring, and Utilizing a National Web-Based Forest Carbon Application by Ian Hanou

FCX: the Forest Carbon Xplorer App GIS in the Rockies Conference: September 2015

1 Ian Hanou, Owner/Principal Presented by:

www.planitgeo.com | [email protected] 1

http://forestcarbonx.umn.edu/

http://forestcarbonx.umn.edu/

Tree Plotter®

Canopy Planner®

Park Plotter® Work Order Management®

Native Apps

Browser-based for tablets or desktop No GIS or GPS software needed; hosted solution Real-time, multi-user data entry on-the-cloud

Custom Apps

2 www.planitgeo.com | [email protected]

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Plan-It Geo Software Overview

Funding from USFS and Univ. of Minnesota A simple app for smartphones, tablets, and desktop

use to explore the extent and value of the nation’s forest carbon, a 21st Century “Digital Experience” Methods: by GPS location, by county (in map), by

county (in tables), and by radius (draw in map) Outputs: charts, graphs, and tables of carbon pools

(tonnes/$s) Resources: Forestry Research: http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/8/1/1 Data: http://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/Product/RDS-2013-0004 EPA GHG Equivalencies Calculator Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon (2013) State of CA Air Resources Board http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/


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http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/8/1/1

http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/

USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA): systematic inventory of forests for primary source of national statistics and supports informed forest management Data analyzed to provide wall-to-wall spatial GIS rasters of

forest carbon estimates by pool (lower 48 states)


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6 individual carbon “pools” and total (7 rasters), 250m res.


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• Web browser-based Web connection required Some offline capability No download/install

• Technologies: Open Layers API PostgreSQL / PostGIS GeoServer Responsive JS libraries Red Hat Linux HTML5, CSS, etc.


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• Methods: Wizard By GPS location By county (in map) By county (in tables) By radius (draw in map)


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Where to Now? • Export/save/print forest carbon reports • Separate rasters for each carbon pool • Many other forest metrics from FIA could be in focused

apps • NASA Carbon Monitoring System Workshop, JPL,

Pasadena, CA (Nov. 2015) • Xplore … Go “Get Carbon”!


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Credits: Chris Woodall, Research Forester, US Forest Service R&D (651) 649-5141 | [email protected] Matt Russell, University of Minnesota (612) 626 4280| [email protected]

Thank you!

Ian Hanou, Owner and Director, Business Development (303) 503-4846 | [email protected]

A geospatial analysis, technology consulting, and planning firm specializing in urban natural

resource management.

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