Fwd: LCDB3 Workshops February 2009

[Gavin Treadgold]

Apologies if you have already received this from other sources - just trying to ensure it is widely disseminated.

Cheers Gavin

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From: Karl Majorhazi <Karl.Ma...@mfe.govt.nz>

Date: 30 January 2009 13:51:42 

Subject: LCDB3 Workshops February 2009

Hi all, I would appreciate it if you could distribute the attached flyer to your various communities. I would like this to reach as many people as possible.

 

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Land Cover Database Planning Workshops

 

You are invited to participate in one of a series 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 make it 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.

 

Thursday 19^th Feb –Christchurch - Environment Canterbury

Friday 20^th Feb – Dunedin - Otago Regional Council

Wednesday 25^th Feb – Palmerston North - Landcare Research

Thursday 26^th Feb – Hamilton - Waikato University and Access Grid

 

Please register your interest to attend with Maria Alano, maria...@mfe.govt.nz or phone 04 439 7735.

Please make sure you indicate which workshop you intend attending. Please direct any further enquires to Karl Majorhazi,karl.ma...@mfe.govt.nz or phone 04 439 7455

 

More details are in the flyer.

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Thank you.

 

Karl Majorhazi  GISP-AP Senior Adviser, Geospatial Information Ministry for the Environment Phone +644 439 7455

Environment House 23 Kate Sheppard Place PO Box 10362, Wellington, NZ http://www.mfe.govt.nz/