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Welcome to the pages of Discovery Forest Services. This site is intended as a resource for organizations that are involved in the planning and implementation of a Geographic Information System (GIS).
Contents
Geographic
Information Systems A brief introduction to GIS, GIS implementation
planning and typical GIS project phases.
GIS
Resources This section has a host of links to GIS resources including
educational, NGO, First Nations, Government and Vendor GIS sites.
GIS
and First Nations Why GIS? Some community based objectives for GIS
and links to potential sources of funding for First Nations GIS capacity
building.
GIS
Capacity Building Links to GIS educational resources, GIS training
providers and detailed information about GIS training options offered by
Discovery Forest Services.
Integrated
Resource Inventories The content of any GIS-based inventory is necessarily
politically determined, preferably by the people who make decisions based
on the information derived from the GIS. This link takes you to a description
of a GIS data-set assembled to address some First Nations issues.
About
Discovery. Discovery Forest Services is a Vancouver based proprietorship
that offers training and consulting in the areas of Geographic Information
Systems, Global Positioning Systems and Resource Information Management.
The objectives of Discovery Forest are to provide individuals and communities
with the technologies, training and technical support that will promote
community involvement in land use decision making and support well informed
choices about natural resource use.