Today's contributions come from Arnie Browning, Bill Feidt, Mike Smith, Jerry Vanclay, and Gary Waggoner. Thanks for sharing, guys!
WANTED - Material for the next FIU. Send your forestry-related news items, help items, new publications, meeting announcements, and interesting links to gklund@worldnet.att.net. Thanks, Gyde.
The IUFRO 4.02/4.11/4.12 (Forest Resource Inventory and Monitoring, Statistics and Remote Sensing) Newsletter for October 1999 will be compiled and distributed during the next couple of weeks. If you have any material to contribute, can you please send it to Jerry Vanclay soon? Jerry Vanclay, Editor, IUFRO 4.02/4.11/4.12 Newsletter
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT - Forest Planning Analyst: Coeur d'Alene Tribe - Plummer, Idaho, USA. Full-time, through December 31, 2001. Range 7-9, Step 1-10. The successful applicant will have a Bachelor's Degree in Forest Management or a closely related field, experience working with Indian Tribes and writing of Management Plans with a forest component. Duties include completing data analysis, public scoping, an Environmental Assessment and a Forest Management Plan for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. An example of Management Plan writing is to be included with the application and/or Resume. To apply, contact the Human Resources Department at +1-208- 686-0800 or 5713 for an application or write to P.O. Box 408, 850 "A" Street, Plummer, ID 83851. USA. Position closes 10/8/99.
VEGETATION MAPS WANTED - I am seeking national or regional level forest, vegetation or ecological maps of the following areas - North Korea, Yugoslavia (Kosovo area), Turkey, Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. If you know of a source (either electronic or hard copy) would you please contact me directly - Thanks - Gyde (gklund@worldnet.att.net)
Anon. 1997. AFRICOVER land cover classification. RSC Series No. 70. 76 pp, 21 figures, 8 tables Chief, FAO/SDRN, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy. (e-mail: changchui.he@fao.org). See: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/EIdirect/EIre0041.htm for summary.
Brogaard, Sara; Ólafsdóttir, Rannveig . 1997. Ground-truths or Ground-lies? Environmental sampling for remote sensing application exemplified by vegetation cover data.
Brown, Roger O. n.d. Combined terrain and spectral reasoning methods.
Forestry Australia - A Southern Digital Report is a facts and figures briefing for forestry industry specialists. The report includes: Geography, economics Australian forestry resources, new plantation areas, projected wood supplies, and the forest products trade. The report is now available in a pdf format suitable for easy access and use on Intranet sites. The cost is US$35.00. Available from Trade and Media Services Ltd, publishers of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal. Contact: southem@wave.co.nz Tel: +64-7-349 4107; Fax: 64-7-349 4157 5 High Street, Rotorua 3201, New Zealand
Geist, H. 1997. How tobacco farming contributes to tropical deforestation. See http://www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de/umwelt-spp/proj2/geist.html
Slaymaker, D.M., K.M.L. Jones, C.R. Griffin and J.T. Finn. 1996. Mapping deciduous forests in Southern New England using aerial videography and hyperclustered multi-temporal Landsat TM imagery. Pages 87-101 in Gap Analysis: A Landscape Approach to Biodiversity Planning, J.M. Scott, T.H. Tear and F.W. Davis (eds). American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Wiley, John P. Jr. 1999. New light on diversity. Smithsonian 30(2):20,22-23.
4-9 October 1999. Congreso de Ordenación y Gestión Sostenible de Montes. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (reminder). See website at http://www.tragsatec.es/internew/internet/congreso/congreso.htm or Email: congreso_ordenacion@tragsatec.es. See the preliminary program at http://home.att.net/~gklund/programa.htm.
14-15 October 1999. Forest Roads. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Training course. Contact: Kathyryn Besong. Tel. + 1-334-821-9222
29 November-2 December, 1999. International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions - WORLD SEMI-ARID '99 (Reminder). João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Contact: Prof. Dorival C. Bruni, President of BIOSFERA, Brazilian Society for the Environment (BIOSFERA), P.O.Box 2432, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP: 20001-970, Brazil. Tel/Fax: (+55 21) 221-0155/ 2217626. Tel: (+55 21) 252-1631. E-mail: biosfera@biosfera.com.br. Web site: www.biosfera.com.br
26-28 June 2000. Association of Applied Biologists: Remote Sensing in Agriculture. (Reminder) Cirencester, UK. Contact: Rosie Bryson, ADAS Boxworth, Battlegate Road, Boxworth CB3 8NN, UK. Tel: +44-1954-268242. Fax: +44-1954-268268. Email: rosie.bryson@#adas.co.uk. http://www.hri.ac.uk/aab/remsensg.htm
From the SAF Member list -The "UNESCO’s International Directory of Environmental Education Institutions on Internet" is one of UNESCO’s efforts to develop an international information network to facilitate exchange of knowledge, information and materials on environmental education. You will find the Directory at the following address: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/environment/index.html. Comments can be sent to: Educating for a Sustainable Future EPD, UNESCO, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris ,07 SP, France.
Tel: +331 45681036; Fax: 331 45685635. E-mail: j.heiss@unesco.org
WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - - browse the corporate partners involved in establishing Open GIS standards and read some of their materials on the importance of interoperability of distributed geospatial data & analysis systems.
A complete interactive world atlas on the Web - http://uk.multimap.com/world/places.cgi
Country Map Sites The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps - http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/vegmaps.htm
Remote sensing guide - satellites and sensors. http://http2.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/satmarks/Sensor.html
The Remote Sensing Tutorial - http://www.sbg.ac.at/geo/idrisi/Remote_Sensing_Tutorial/eerst.gsfc.nasa.gov/TofC/toc1.html
Please share as appropriate. Thanks and have a great weekend. Gyde