NARSEC - North American Network for Remote Sensing Park Ecological Condition
2007 Workshop, March 6-8, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Meeting Handout Package - you probably want this!
Click here to download the 'handout book' as a single pdf file with the agenda, meeting objectives, background papers on NPS I&M and PCA EI Monitoring, breakout group charges, oral presentation and poster abstracts, biographies of oral presenters, and poster abstracts (4.5 MB). Download agenda only (44 KB).
What's here or coming in the future:
- Visual part of the oral presentations.
- Poster presentations. Not all, but many of them.
- Full meeting report (pdf; 2 MB)
- Publication of papers from the workshop. We are producing a special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment that will include papers from the workshop, and many others on the theme of using remote sensing data to monitor parks and protected areas.
Other news - North American Land Change Monitoring system
There's been continued collaboration and development to produce annual land change products, continuous across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Download the Executive Summary to learn about this project.
Meeting Presentations
(alphabetical order within sessions)Introduction
Cihlar, J. Meeting Introduction (114 KB).Gross, J.E. NPS Vital Sign Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and the Path to Thresholds and Assessment Points (2.8 MB).
McLennan, D. EI Monitoring in Canada's National Parks - Use of Remote Sensing Data (1.5 MB).
Theme 1 - Remote sensing for monitoring land surface change in parks.
Click here to download all intro and Theme 1 presentations in a single file (46.6 MB).Fraser, R. Land Cover Change Protocol Developed For A Park Ecological Integrity Observing System (Park-EIOS) (3.2 MB).
Goetz, S. Observing and Modeling Land Use Change and its Ecological Implications in the Mid-Atlantic and New England (8.8 MB).
Homer, C. Multi-Resolution Land Characterization Consortium (MRLC) Products (9.8 MB).
Homer, C. The Proposed North American Land Change Monitoring System (7.0 MB).
Irons, J. Status of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission and Related Activities (1.0 MB).
Kennedy, R.E. Challenges and Successes in Developing Landsat-based Monitoring Protocols for National Parks (7.0 MB).
Theme 2 - Landscape pattern and biodiversity
Click here to dowload all Theme 2 presentations in a single file (37.4 MB).Kerr, J. Modeling focal species distributions using RS inputs (3.9 MB).
Kolb, M. Multi-scale Assessment of Biodiversity in Mexico - New Approaches to a National Gap Analysis (6.1 MB).
Lookingbill, T. Evaluating Landscape Connectivity in an Eastern US Network of Parks (6.1 MB).
Quirouette, J., and P. Zorn. FragCube - Using Ecologically Scaled Landscape Indices for Monitoring Landscape Pattern in Canada's National Parks (2.7 MB).
Ressel, R. Remote Sensing Based Products Applicable to National Park Monitoring in México (6.9 MB).
Rothley, K. Landscape-scale Indicators of Protected Area Quality and Effectiveness (908 KB).
Theobald, D. Measuring Landscape Dynamics for Park Resources (6.7 MB).
Theme 3 - Desired conditions for protected landscapes
Click here to download all Day 3 presentations in a single file (3.8 MB).Cihlar, J. NARSEC 2007 Follow-On (118 KB).
Gross, J. E. On Thresholds and Assessment Points: Making Sense Out of Data (1.86 MB).
McCanny, S. State of Protected Heritage Area Report (175 KB).
McLennan, D. EI Monitoring in Canada's National Parks Landscape -Targets, Thresholds and EI Assessment (22.6 MB).
Zorn, P. Landscape Pattern: Targets and Thresholds (1.60 MB).