Download or read book Development of a Riparian Condition Assessment Protocol for Northern Gulf Rivers Using Remote Sensing and Ground Survey written by Andrew Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this study was to establish the riparian condition baseline against which future condition trends could be measured, and the development of a robust, repeatable method of analysis. However, during the course of the study, researchers found that the dramatic changes in woody vegetation in both the channel zone and across floodplains warranted much more detailed investigation to establish whether the trends elucidated in this study are real, and what the drivers of the changes are (is there a clear trend through time or is there some variability that is a function of inter-annual climatic variability). -- Publisher website.
Download or read book Development of a Riparian Condition Assessment Approach for Northern Gulf Rivers Using Remote Sensing and Ground Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Area Management written by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Proper Functioning Condition Work Group and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Area Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Download or read book Inventory and Monitoring Riparian Areas written by Lewis H. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions at the Water s Edge written by Lynne M. Westphal and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Remote Sensing Approach for Mapping and Classifying Riparian Gully Erosion in Tropical Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project will develop a procedure for mapping riparian gully erosion within Australia's tropical rivers; it will develop a classification scheme for prioritising the threats posed by gullying in different parts of the landscape; it will validate the approach in five focal river systems in Queensland and the Northern Territory (the Coleman River on Cape York; the Mitchell River in the North/Eastern Gulf; the Leichhardt, Gregory and Nicholson Rivers in the Southern Gulf; and the Victoria River in the NT); and it will produce gully erosion hazard maps for these five rivers.
Download or read book A System for Mapping Riparian Areas in the Western United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition written by Amy Jansen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition assesses the ecological condition of riparian habitats using indicators that reflect functional aspects of the physical, community and landscape features of the riparian zone. It was developed by the Rivers Program of LWA and has been rigorously tested across Australia. This version of the Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition has been tailored for the sheep wheat regions of South Australia.
Download or read book Automating Riparian Health Assessment Using High resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery written by Gabrielle Marie Leo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riparian areas are ecologically and economically critical habitats in the Canadian Prairies. An estimated 80% of riparian zones in North America are threatened by anthropogenic development. While riparian conservation is integrated into agricultural, watershed, and forestry best management practices across Canada, existing riparian health assessments are reliant on resource-intensive field surveys. The objective of this thesis was to develop a riparian health assessment using high-resolution remotely sensed imagery. Riparian health surveys were conducted along the La Salle River. High-resolution imagery and LiDAR data were integrated into an object-based image analysis of vegetation. Topographic analysis was conducted using a high-resolution DEM. These data were input into a linear discriminant classifier to model riparian health. Riparian health models containing both vegetation and topographic variables, and only vegetation variables, produced good agreement with field assessments. LiDAR data and the object-based image analysis method were successfully used to develop a remote riparian health assessment.
Download or read book Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Condition written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Training Use and Water Quality Effects of Riparian Proper Functioning Condition Assessment in Nevada written by Robert John Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limited spatial extent of riparian systems in Nevada belies their importance to the production of ecosystem services by the landscape as a whole. Management of these systems is complicated by legacy effects of historic management, contrasting and often conflicting perspectives among stakeholders, and differing philosophies and mandates among the various land management agencies charged with their care. Recently, there has been interest in increased collaboration in the management of riparian areas to mitigate these challenges. In widespread use in Nevada for up to 15 years, Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) assessment is a qualitative method for rapid riparian assessment. We investigated the effectiveness of the teaching of PFC, its utility in the field, and current use in management through a survey of class participants, field users, and land managers. The results indicate that PFC is widely supported by those who use it. The technical aspects of performing PFC seem to be slightly better understood than its more nuanced use in building cooperation and trust among stakeholders and developing appropriate, adaptive, and collaborative management for riparian areas and their adjoining uplands. High quality water is understood to be a product of functional ecosystems. If PFC is helping managers steer riparian areas toward higher functionality, there should be improvements in physical, chemical, and biological water quality. Through statistical analysis of a variety of available data, we looked for evidence of such a relationship. While we were not able to show a connection between PFC-driven management and water quality, the attempt to do so provided insight into some challenges of using water quality standards and monitoring as a basis for riparian management and suggested some appropriate directions for future study.
Download or read book Riparian Land Management Technical Guidelines written by Siwan Emma Lovett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Riparian Conditions in the Nooksack River Basin with the Combination of LiDAR Multi spectral Imagery and GIS written by Erica M. Capuana and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riparian Vegetation of Key Sub catchments of the Burnett River written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use and Disturbance Interactions in Dynamic Arid Systems Multiscale Remote Sensing Approaches for Monitoring and Analyzing Riparian Vegetation Change written by Miguel Luis Villarreal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riparian systems are comprised of interacting aquatic and terrestrial elements that contribute distinctively to the natural capital of arid landscapes. Riparian vegetation is a major component of riparian systems, providing the ecosystem services required to support watershed health. The spatial and temporal distributions of riparian vegetation are influenced by hydrologic and disturbance processes operating at scales from local to regional. I believe both these processes are well suited to monitoring using synoptic and multitemporal approaches. The research in this dissertation is presented as 3 related studies. The first study focused on historical riparian dynamics related to natural disturbance and land use. Using current and historical riparian vegetation maps, we examined vegetation change within catchments of varying land use intensity. Results suggest that land use activities and wastewater subsidy affect the rate of development and diversity of riparian community typesThe second study used moderate resolution satellite imagery to monitor changes in riparian structure and pattern within a land cover change framework. We classified Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery of the Upper Santa Cruz River watershed using Classification and Regression Tree (CART) models. We tested the ability of our models to capture change at landscape, floodplain, and catchment scales, centering our change detection efforts on a riparian tree die-off episode and found they can be used to describe both general landscape dynamics and disturbance-related riparian change. The third study examined historical and environmental factors contributing to spatial patterns of vegetation following two riparian tree die-offs. We used high resolution aerial imagery to map locations of individual live and dead trees and collected a suite of environmental variables and historical variables related directly and indirectly to land use and disturbance history. We tested for differences between groups of live and dead trees using Multi-response Permutation Procedures and found strong relationships between historical factors and mortality incidence. The results from these studies demonstrate the importance of examining historical information and spatial linkages across scales when monitoring riparian vegetation. From a land management perspective, the results identify the need for landscape-level, ecosystem-based management programs to maintain functioning and spatially connected riparian systems.
