Landscape Monitoring Workshop Proceedings and Products

27-28 January 2004, Ft. Collins, Colorado

Workshop Proceedings  Short summaries of presentations and breakout groups. This document was designed to be used alongside the presentations. (541 KB).
All presentations in one compressed (ZIP) file.   This is a large file - 26.4 MB.

Individual presentation files (pdf format)

John Gross     Introduction and Workshop Goals (0.1 MB)
Steve Fancy    Natural Resource Challenge Inventory & Monitoring (0.8 MB)
Andy Hansen   An Ecological Approach for Monitoring Change Around Protected Areas (6.0 MB)
Bill Kepner      An Overview of the Landscape Sciences Program in the National Exposure Research Laboratory - EPA (8.8 MB)
Bob Gardner   Pattern, Process, and Hypothesis Testing (1.3 MB)
Pat Comer      Applying NatureServe Methods and Data to Landscape Metrics in NPS Inventory and Monitoring (3.9 MB)
Brad Reed      The USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (GAM) Program: Assessing the rates, causes, and consequences of landscape change (7.0 MB)
Brad Smith     Forest Service Inventory & Analysis Overview (1.6 MB)
Brad Smith     USFS FIA Data Privacy Policy (0.4 MB)

Breakout group results

Conceptual Models (0.1 MB)
Landscape Pattern (0.8 MB)
Change Detection (0.6 MB)

Workshop handouts - selected materials from packages for participants
Complete set of workshop handouts   combined into one pdf file (2.0 MB)

AGWA and ATtILA Assessment tools - from EPA

AGWA is an ArcView interface to hydrological process models that are useful for landscape assessment. Users can run the models and evaluate the relative consequences of different land management options. AGWA is currently being ported to ArcGIS.

AGWA Fact Sheet (4.4 MB)   The fact sheet is a good introduction to AGWA.
AGWA Brochure (1.3 MB)
AGWA Product Announcement (160 KB)
AGWA Home page.

ATtILA is an ArcView interface for conducting landscape-scale assessments. It estimates multiple indices of landscape pattern and condition. ATtILA incorporates a range of data sources and integrates them for landscape analysis. ATtILA is currently being ported to ArcGIS.

ATtILA Fact Sheet (250 KB)
ATtILA home page

Comments or suggestions? Send to John Gross, Ecologist, I&M Program


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