Enjoyed your article. I believe the 4 hectare cutoff determines if a polygon is required to identify the “plot of land”, versus a single Lat/Lon point. All timber on the “plot of land” can be associated with a single polygon or coordinate, regardless of the size of harvest. Makes it a little easier to track, but not much.
Hi Jon, thanks for the comment. Interesting. I guess this goes to show exactly how confusing this new policy really is! (Sheepish mea culpa here ;-) )
So, in other words, the geolocation points serve to locate the boundaries of the polygon. Bigger (or more irregular) polygons need more points, but there's still only one polygon per plot/cutblock.
Early in my career I traversed cutblock boundaries, and very few of them were conveniently square or round. So you're right, having just one polygon will make tracking easier, but there's still going to be a lot of data!
Enjoyed your article. I believe the 4 hectare cutoff determines if a polygon is required to identify the “plot of land”, versus a single Lat/Lon point. All timber on the “plot of land” can be associated with a single polygon or coordinate, regardless of the size of harvest. Makes it a little easier to track, but not much.
Hi Jon, thanks for the comment. Interesting. I guess this goes to show exactly how confusing this new policy really is! (Sheepish mea culpa here ;-) )
So, in other words, the geolocation points serve to locate the boundaries of the polygon. Bigger (or more irregular) polygons need more points, but there's still only one polygon per plot/cutblock.
Early in my career I traversed cutblock boundaries, and very few of them were conveniently square or round. So you're right, having just one polygon will make tracking easier, but there's still going to be a lot of data!