Elements and Performance Criteria

RANGE STATEMENT
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
OHS requirements:
are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include:
personal protective equipment and clothing
safety equipment
first aid equipment
fire fighting equipment
hazard and risk control
fatigue management
elimination of hazardous materials and substances
safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire
manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying
Environmental requirements may include:
legislation
organisational policies and procedures
workplace practices
Legislative requirements:
are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include:
award and enterprise agreements
industrial relations
Australian Standards
confidentiality and privacy
OHS
the environment
equal opportunity
anti-discrimination
relevant industry codes of practice
duty of care
Organisational requirements may include:
legal
organisational and site guidelines
policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility
quality assurance
procedural manuals
quality and continuous improvement processes and standards
OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures
ethical standards
recording and reporting requirements
equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements
environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines)
Available aerial photographs may include:
photographs, which may be:
held by the organisation
required to be purchased
borrowed from another organisation
Standards and requirements include:
scale
flying height and focal length
required percent endlap and sidelap
orientation
location and number of flight lines required
total number of photographs required
allowable drift, crab, tilt and image motion
camera characteristics, including format, lens quality, shutter speed and aperture, film and filter characteristics
acceptable seasons of the year, time of day, allowable present cloud cover and hot spots
Factors:
to be considered when selecting photography for a project are:
colour or black and white
date of acquisition
scale
minimum mappable area
actual smallest operational unit area
scale of mapping relative to scale of presentation
Types may include:
project, mapsheet, spot and stratigraphic:
of photographic classes, including terrestrial, vertical and oblique
of aerial photographic film, including black and white, black and white infra-red, colour, colour infra-red
Applications
of aerial photographs to natural resource management include:
road or plantation design
field navigation and interpretation of forest types
forest structure
environmental processes, such as salinity discharge
ecological vegetation communities, such as coastal heathlands
land capability classes
remnant vegetation (roadside vegetation)
diseased vegetation classes, such as Eucalyptus dieback from Phytophthora
Positioning may include:
orienting and aligning a pair of overlapping aerial photographs for stereoscopic viewing
Key aspects include:
determining north and flight line path
and may include:
mapsheet
flight orientation
photography type
focal length
film number
run number
frame number
height above sea level
photography date
Forest attributes may include:
topographic features, such as:
roads and tracks
watercourses
ridges and spurs
saddles
peaks and knobs
Forest management information:
derived from photo may include:
area
height
species
crown cover
crown form
disturbance
aspects to be considered as part of the environmental management process
Interpretation may include:
basic principles, such as:
absolute and relative size and shape
shadow
tone or colour
texture
pattern and location
association and convergence of evidence
Guidelines may include:
predetermined classes
stratification
Field verification includes:
accuracy of all mapped topographic information
measure of accuracy of associated base topographic or digital base map
spatial accuracy of strata
measure of accuracy of content of strata
Maps and plans may include:
cadastral plans
topographic maps
locality plans
site plans
maps and plans generated through the use of geographic information systems (GIS)
Updating
of maps and plans may be:
manual
electronic (digital)
using data transfer technology
Tools may include:
electronic data transfer technology
manual light tables
mechanical light tables, including Omnigraph, Kartoflex, Zoom Transfer Scope, Artiscope and Sketchmaster
Transferring data may include:
rescaling from one source to another
transferring from map to map
transferring from photograph to map or diapositive to map

EVIDENCE GUIDE
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.
Overview of assessment
A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence that they can derive and interpret information from an aerial photograph for forest management purposes according to organisational guidelines
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit
The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to, and satisfy, all of the requirements of the elements of this unit and include demonstration of:
following applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislative and regulatory requirements and codes of practice relevant to interpreting and using aerial photographs for forest management
following organisational policies and procedures relevant to interpreting and using aerial photographs for forest management
sourcing and obtaining suitable aerial photographs appropriate to forest management project requirements
establishing key aspects of aerial photographs
deriving and interpreting information from forest topographic features
documenting and maintaining data and information
interpreting forest area detail from a map and scale distances, and calculating height and area information
Context of and specific resources for assessment
Competency is to be assessed in the workplace or realistically simulated workplace
Assessment is to occur under standard and authorised work practices, safety requirements and environmental constraints
Assessment of required knowledge, other than confirmatory questions, will usually be conducted in an off-site context
Assessment is to follow relevant regulatory or Australian Standards requirements
The following resources should be made available:
workplace location or simulated workplace
materials and equipment relevant to undertaking work applicable to this unit
specifications and work instructions
Method of assessment
Assessment must satisfy the endorsed Assessment Guidelines of the FPI11 Training Package
Assessment methods must confirm consistency and accuracy of performance (over time and in a range of workplace relevant contexts) together with application of required knowledge
Assessment must be by direct observation of tasks, with questioning on required knowledge and it must also reinforce the integration of employability skills
Assessment methods must confirm the ability to access and correctly interpret and apply the required knowledge
Assessment may be applied under project-related conditions (real or simulated) and require evidence of process
Assessment must confirm a reasonable inference that competency is able not only to be satisfied under the particular circumstance, but is able to be transferred to other circumstances
Assessment may be in conjunction with assessment of other units of competency
The assessment environment should not disadvantage the candidate
Assessment practices should take into account any relevant language or cultural issues related to Aboriginality, gender or language backgrounds other than English
Where the participant has a disability, reasonable adjustment may be applied during assessment
Language and literacy demands of the assessment task should not be higher than those of the work role