Ecological Condition of US National Parks: Enhancing Decision Support Through Monitoring, Analysis, and Forecasting: Final Report
Hansen A, Piekielek N, Goetz SJ, Gross JE, Melton FS, Nemani RR, Theobald DM. 2011. Ecological Condition of US National Parks: Enhancing Decision Support Through Monitoring, Analysis, and Forecasting: Final Report. NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences Program
Brief Description: This project provided the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) with enhanced and new capabilities to use and integrate NASA data and products into the NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program decision support tools (DSTs). Full Description: The goal of this project is to integrate the routine acquisition and analysis of NASA Earth System Science products and other data sources into the NPS I&M DSTs and use these NASA products to evaluate and forecast ecological condition of US National Parks, thereby enhancing natural resource management within and surrounding national parks. Specific objectives of this project are: 1. (a) Identify NASA and other products useful as indicators for NPS I&M monitoring and (b) delineate the boundaries of the surrounding park-centered ecosystems (PCE) appropriate for monitoring. 2. Add value to these data sets for understanding change through analysis and forecasting. 3. Deliver these products and a means to integrate them into the NPS I&M decision support framework
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Hansen, Andrew; Piekielek, Nate; Goetz, Scott; Gross, John; Melton, Forrest; Nemani, Rama; Theobald, David
- Date of Issue
- 2011-01-20
- Publisher
- NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences Program
- Units
- DEWA , GRTE , ROMO , SEKI , UPDE , YELL , YOSE
- Keywords
- Analysis, Ecological condition, Ecosystem Processes, forecasting, Inventory And Monitoring, Landscape, NASA Earth System Science, Natural Resource Management, palms, Remote Sensing