Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

Application of LandTrendr Results to North Coast and Cascade Network Landscape Dynamics Monitoring

Project ID: J8W07100011

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: Oregon State University

Fiscal Year: 2010

Initial Funding: $7,847

Total Funding: $13,077

Project Type: Technical Assistance

Project Disciplines: Biological

National Park: Pacific West Region Washington

Principal Investigator: Kennedy, Robert

Agreement Technical Representative: Copass, Catharine

Abstract: Oregon State University and the National Park Service will collaborate on a project of mutual assistance, the public purpose of which is to support landscape dynamics monitoring in the North Coast and Cascade Network parks. Oregon State University proposes to use a recently developed remote sensing tool, called LandTrendr, to create new versions of existing results which will have improved change labels and a more flexible minimum mapping unit. Oregon State University and the National Park Service will then collaboratively assess the feasibility of attributing these improved change label maps with agents of landscape disturbance. Products include labeled maps of landscape change created using the LandTrendr algorithm, and a report describing the efficacy of the labeling exercise in the context of the North Coast and Cascade Network landscape dynamics monitoring goals.

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