Short-term forecasting of vegetation condition: potential management uses
Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Program. 2016. Short-term forecasting of vegetation condition: potential management uses. National Park Service
This brief describes a quantitative model that is able to forecast short-term vegetation condition on the Colorado Plateau. The vegetation response model combines data from annual, plot-level monitoring; high-frequency, broad-scale imagery from NASA satellites; and weather stations in and near parks.
- Type
- Brochure
- Authors
- Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Program
- Date of Issue
- 2016-07
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CARE , NCPN
- Keywords
- climate, monitoring, NCPN Climate Brief, NCPN Information Brief, NCPN resource brief, NCPN Uplands Brief, NDVI, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, plant studies, remote sensing, vegetation, water balance, weather