title	author	date	output
Processing Nodes 4 VAIA	Francesco Pirotti	11/7/2020	html_document toc toc_float true true

Some stuff on processing to share in the paper

Aggregating data at nodes

Ok so we have nodes, and each A nice alternative for next time could be to have an hex grid, nice geometric advantages.
Cannot convert our regular grid to hexagonal grid because nodes are in a regular grid, hexagonal requires offset at alternate rows.

Grid is obviously not aligned to a regular latitude longitude grid as distance between nodes would decrease moving away from the equator.

For each node a square with a small rotation was created. The squares were uploaded to Google Earth Engine for part of the process.

Forest area and forest categories

Italy is divided into regions and each region into provinces. We have a full cover of forest categories of two regions, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, and the province of Trento. Categories slightly differ in classification, but discrepancies were merged into a single catogory.