Ecological condition of US National Parks: Enhancing decision support through monitoring, analysis, and forecasting.
Hansen AJ, Goetz SJ, Gross JE, Theobald DT, Melton FS, Nemani RR. 2006. Ecological condition of US National Parks: Enhancing decision support through monitoring, analysis, and forecasting.. Montana State University
A central challenge in efforts to assure environment quality in the United States depends on assessing and managing dynamic landscapes within protected areas and their surroundings. Landscape change was selected as a priority vital sign more frequently than any other considered. This result creates a timely opportunity to use NASA Earth-Sun science (ESS) products to assist ongoing efforts to map and monitor landscape dynamics relevant to the health of the nation’s parks and protected areas. Many NASA ESS products require considerable effort to make them useful for NPS I&M applications. The goal of this study is to increase the effectiveness of the NPS I&M Decision Support system (DSS) by the delivery, analysis, and display of NASA ESS data, models, and science results. The approach is to enhance the DSSs created by I&M Networks by standardizing rigorous conceptual models, integrating a system to routinely deliver highly relevant NASA data and products, using these NASA data for monitoring and forecasting changes in land use and land cover in and around parks, and providing integrative software systems for reporting results. We will develop and demonstrate the approach in four I&M pilot Networks.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Hansen, A; Goetz, S; Gross, J; Theobald, D; Melton, F; Nemani, R
- Date of Issue
- 2006-05
- Publisher
- Montana State University
- Units
- PACN
- Keywords
- Land Cover, Land Use, Landscape, Monitoring, PACN, Protocol