Forest Change Detection in Fiji

transparent through Web Display

21-Nov-2013

Naomi Jackson

OUTLINE

Forest change detection mapping 1:50000

Web Platform Used

Method

Other Assistance provided

Challenges

Future Plans

Change Detection

Forestry officers come to SOPAC-SPC for training and map forest areas

Completed 1:50,000

Layers ready for Web Display

Public view and check

Any Misinterpretations can be clarified and changed

WHY??

Geonode is a web-based application and platform for developing

geospatial information systems (GIS)

Open Source Software - QGIS ,UDIG and ATLAS STYLER

Geonode-Platform

Different projects, different data, different requirements, different access levels : ONE SOLUTION

Singular Platform

Geonode Platform Version 2 (development stream)

Used internally within the division by allprogrammes

Unified Approach to Cataloguing, Archiving and Exposing Diverse GIS/Spatial Datasets

SOPAC Geonode

Method

Raster (.tif) format instant upload Vector (.shp)format

i. Create a .sld file (using ATLAS)ii. Uploaded with .shp file (Editing)

Co-ordinate reference System Upload

Login

Fiji Forest Change Detection Map

DEMO

Assistance on WEB

GIZ – Redd++ poject maps hosted in SOPAC

Assistance on WEB

Weekly Updates to MOA and MOF

Previous Practise

A staff of the GIS unit would go and install the updates at the Forestry Department to update maps

Email the Layers - (Error)

Current Practise

Updates on Geonode

Accessible as long as you have internet connection

Challenges

Formats Co-ordinate reference system (Reproject) View and download (If you can view you can

download)

Next Steps

Provide more Change Detection Updates on Geonode to GIS clients

Have data available on PacGeo( PIC DataBank)April 2014

Provide the same assistance to Pacific Island Countries

VINAKA