Abstract
Abstract The Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests has the mandate to annually update the provincial forest inventory database which consists of over 6,600, 1:20,000 scale mapsheets. Updating a database of this size using conventional photointerpretation and manual drafting is time consuming and costly. Digital satellite remote sensing techniques using Landsat TM data integrated with CAM/GIS technology have provided an efficient and cost effective method of streamlining the update procedure. In the future, updating may be further enhanced by incorporating digital change detection methods, classification, raster to vector conversion techniques and digital terrain correction. This paper describes how such technology is currently being used operationally in British Columbia.
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