Virtual Environments for Communicating Changing Forests

Michael J Mahoney
mjmahone@esf.edu
Colin M Beier
cbeier@esf.edu
Aidan C Ackerman
acackerm@esf.edu

About Me

  • Mike Mahoney

  • PhD Candidate at SUNY-ESF

  • Focusing on visualization, VR and ML as ways to think about large-scale systems

  • These slides: mm218.dev/femc2022

What’s a virtual environment?

What’s the problem?

Photo by Mario La Pergola on Unsplash

Virtual Environments for Communicating Changing Forests - https://mm218.dev/femc2022

Missing elements:


1. Reusability


2. Reproducibility


3. Replicability

What are we doing about it?


read.csv("~/data/ifs_all_data.csv") |> head()
   Tag Aspect BLK    EAST   NORTH   ELEV REL..ELEV INTERPRETED.ELEV. DBH85
1 1760          1 135.184 137.296 541.87    15.248           541.519  11.5
2   NA          1 127.491 139.673 541.54        NA           541.538   7.9
3 1768          1 120.338 139.649 540.59        NA           540.593   5.8
4   NA          1 121.828 139.959 540.56        NA           540.563   7.2
5   NA          1 124.514 137.519 540.93        NA           540.929  27.4
6 1764          1 130.178 137.482 541.96        NA           541.965  25.3
   DBH00  DBH09 SPECIES CODE85 CODE00 CODE09 CANKER00 SCALE00 CANKER09 SCALE09
1   15.7   18.3       1      1      1      1       25      25       25       5
2 -999.0 -999.0      10      1      0      3       NA      NA       NA      NA
3    7.9   10.7       1      1      1      1        0       5       25       5
4 -999.0 -999.0      10      1      0      3       NA      NA       NA      NA
5 -999.0   25.5      12      1      0      3       NA      NA       NA      NA
6   28.2   29.9       8      1      1      1       NA      NA       NA      NA
  Date.mapped SIGHTED.FROM              COMMENTS...2009
1    9-Aug-09           14             Splits above DBH
2   23-Jun-09            0               Tree not found
3   23-Jun-09            0                             
4   23-Jun-09            0               Tree not found
5   23-Jun-09            0 Some bark missing; wood soft
6   23-Jun-09            0                             
  Description...1985.and.or.2000 Column1 Old.E Old.N   New.E   New.N  X
1                             AB      NA    NA       136.061 135.998 NA
2                             SM      NA    NA            NA      NA NA
3                             AB      NA    NA            NA      NA NA
4                             SM      NA    NA            NA      NA NA
5                             YB      NA    NA            NA      NA NA
6                             SM      NA    NA            NA      NA NA

Giencke et al. (2014). Can J. For. Res. 44: 1042-1050 doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0038

Virtual Environments for Communicating Changing Forests - https://mm218.dev/femc2022

Thank you!

This work was financially supported by the Climate & Applied Forest Research Institute at SUNY-ESF.


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Slides available at mm218.dev/femc2022

Virtual Environments for Communicating Changing Forests - https://mm218.dev/femc2022