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Calculating NDVI in QGIS
Titling these articles is getting more difficult. I almost called this my "Getting my Junior Forestry Badge" because that's what I told one client the other day as I confidently misidentified another tree on a walk. A forestry person I am not - but I've gotten pretty...
MAGIP and TNGIC in 2024
I just came off two conferences with one being in Montana and one being in Tennessee. Both Geo related. It was my first time attending the MAGIP conference. Not that you need a long overly drawn out review of both - here are some of the highlights: TNGIC was fun. It...
QGIS and LIDAR and Forestry Part 2
At the TNGIC conference I did a workshop on LIDAR and QGIS. I was completely blasted out by ESRI's Avenue for the Web class but I had a few souls come in and take a look at it. I finished it off with "I don't use LIDAR that much". Well.....I'm finally using it. It...
TNGIC 2024
So - if you're coming to the 2024 TNGIC (TN Geographic Information Council) meeting (April 9-11 2024) to talk about how no one understands what you do......I'm doing a workshop. What workshop? It's a new workshop. QGIS and LIDAR data. As to what I do with the class...
iNaturalist and QGIS
I am probably the worst for being able to properly name "things". There are big trees and little trees. There are the annoying bugs and the not so annoying bugs. There are ducks, birds, bigger birds, and the birds that hang out at my bird feeder. As much time as I...
Mergin Maps and DB Sync
I don't know if I would label this exercise as fun but I've learned alot. I don't do a ton of data collection these days. At one time a few years ago I was out in the field with Fulcrum, a laptop, and sketchy internet for days at a time. These days I'm hardly ever...