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Forest and tree classification resources?

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spain
Hello there

I'm going to start to populate my photoscenery with forestrial autogen. I've spent the last days looking for resources to get information about what kind of trees populate around it. Sadly I have not found much information. So someone could point me towards a project, web, anything about what kind of trees are in the USA PNW forests?.

Until now I've found very vague information ("perennial forest" and something like that) but I would like to populate my forest with more than one type of tree to add some variation.

Thanks in advance.
 
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unitedstates
Check out the NLCD, National Land Class dataset, It was available from USGS. It's ~30m resolution and so it's not going to be perfect but it would be a good place to start.
 
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Hello there


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So someone could point me towards a project, web, anything about what kind of trees are in the USA PNW forests?.


Thanks in advance.

FSX uses

Cool Conifer Forest
Cool Rain Forest
Small Leaf Mixed Woods


in some places along the coast line

Forest and Field
Cool Mixed Forest
 

ollyau

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us-california
I did a quick search and found this: http://faculty.washington.edu/wgold/ecosystems.htm.

However, if your only goal is to make scenery in FSX, you could open Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\BASE\Scenery\worldlc.bgl in TMFViewer to see what the surrounding landclass is, so you can annotate the same type of trees as the surrounding autogen.
 
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