Land Cover Database Planning Workshops

Fri, 2008-11-28 14:14 — Gavin Treadgold

An invite to an upcoming series of workshops...

You are invited to participate in the first of a number of workshops to help plan the development of the next version of the national Land Cover Database (LCDB).

The LCDB is a nationally significant database which is widely used throughout the country. It is a digital map created by grouping similar types of land cover which can identified from satellite images. There are currently two versions in circulation depicting New Zealand’s land cover in 1996-97 and 2001-02. A third version is proposed which will use the mapping output from the Ministry for the Environment’s Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) programme as a base. This mapping is based on satellite data over the summer of 2007-08.

We need your input to scope the new version of the LCDB and makeit relevant for today’s needs. The workshop will be of interest to policy makers, land managers, researchers and analysts –anyone with an interest or a stake in land cover information.

More workshops will be held during February 2009 in Hamilton, PalmerstonNorth, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The first workshop is being held in Wellington. Tuesday 16 December, 2008 from 1-4pm at Environment House, 23 Kate Sheppard Place, Wellington.

(pdf here)