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Title: Monitoring Landscape Dynamics


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Monitoring Landscape Dynamics
John Gross IM Program Annual Meeting 8 February
2005
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  • Land use intensification
  • Disturbance
  • Habitat loss and isolation
  • Climate change
  • Many related issues
  • water quality
  • invasive species
  • viewsheds
  • night skies

Picnic Rock Fire 2004, near Ft. Collins, CO
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  • VS and Network update
  • Program / national update
  • Upcoming activities and opportunities
  • Issues related to landscape monitoring

Coronado National Monument
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137/151 parks all 17 of the first networks
identified land cover/land use as a priority VS.
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A Sampling of Network Activities
  • Vegetation cover NCBN, NETN
  • Landscapes NCRN, APHN, GLKN
  • Disturbances forests NCCN
  • Phenology land condition NCPN/SCPN
  • Phenology, snow cover, water quality SWAN
  • Coastal change (LIDAR) NCBN others

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Other Significant Activities
  • Landscape workshop (January 2004)
  • Change detection working group (WI, May 2004)
  • Activity updates and web pages
  • NPS / NASA MOU signed
  • NASA proposal submitted
  • Roads database Ray Watts, Leona (UCBN)
  • Andy Hansens MS

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Ongoing and Planned Activities
  • Continued general coordination
  • Occasional summary
  • Change detection paper
  • Parks Canada / CSA / CCRS / NASA meeting March
  • Collaboration with remote sensing specialist
    Mike Story
  • MRLC / NLCD meeting 23-24 Feb (Mike Story)
  • USFS - FIA MOU
  • Web site http//science.nature.nps.gov/lulc_rs.
    htm

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The sensitive nature of landscape monitoring
  • we can monitor activities on lands outside parks
  • focus on resources
  • isolation or loss of critical habitat
  • disturbance due to increased activity
  • sources of invasive species
  • viewsheds and visitor expreriences
  • impediments to movements by animals
  • impacts to water quality or quantity

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I want to hear from you!
  • Ongoing activities and contracts
  • Related projects
  • Requests for national-level analyses and
    activities
  • Other activities??
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