Emerging and Contemporary Technologies in Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Assessment and Change Detecti

1
Benefits of Retrospective Monitoring

• Establishes a Baseline for a Continuing
  Monitoring Program
• Allows us to separate the effects of climatic
  variation on surface features from effects due to
  military activities
• Evaluates the Effectiveness of Management
  Activities
• Detects Critical Land Cover Thresholds to Help
  Determine Carrying Capacity

1
2
Benefits of Historical Imagery

• Conducive to Landscape-Scale Studies (Data
  Efficiency)
• Availability and Cost
• Required To Detect Change in Arid Lands ( gt 20
  Years of Data)

2
3
Linkage of Emerging Contemporary Imagery

• The Use of Emerging Imagery is Dependent on
  Contemporary Imagery to Identify Areas for
  Intensive Sampling.
• Nested Design Use Synoptic Historic Imagery to
  Detect Change for Finer Emerging Platforms

3
4
Products of Retrospective Analysis

• Complete Historic Remote Sensing and Change
  Detection Database for Fort Bliss, Camp Williams,
  and MCGACC
• Image Ingest Tools to Incorporate New Imagery
  into the Change Detection and Data Analysis
  Environment
• Image Standardization Tools
• Image Change Detection Tools

4