Abstract

Talking Points:Tapping Potential for Large-Scale Resource Planning
Track: Forestry
Authors: El Carlos Aran, Pat Reed, Ashley Goldhor-Wilcock

Site-level participatory GIS results have untapped potential for improving large-scale resource planning. Besides collecting public input on a single project, further analyses of combined data from multiple projects could be done. A comprehensive database of comments across all projects for large-scale monitoring and reporting is possible. We lay out examples of addressing the above uses, including objectives, tasks, application to resource planning, and software configurations.