Education and Applications

If you are new to remote sensing or just want to see what others are doing with the technology at NPS, then you are at the right place. Remote sensing products and their application are critical to (1) location and detection of NPS cultural resources, (2) understanding the role and function of those cultural resources, (3) understanding how vegetation and other natural resources are distributed on a landscape scale and (4) documenting land-cover changes inside and adjacent to park boundaries.

The purpose here is to provide you with:

remote sensing applications (cultural and natural resource) across a broad range of topics,
tutorial documentation for select applications to give you an opportunity to understand, in detail, how some of these applications were developed.

Applications

Resource	Description	Contact
Informatics.org France	GIS and Remote Sensing for Archeology: Burgundy, France.	madry@informatics.org
USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies	Use of LIDAR for Coastal and Watershed Studies.	jbrock@usgs.gov anayegandhi@usgs.gov
Arizona State University Geological Remote Sensing Laboratory	Land Cover Classification: Central Arizona LTER Site.	jharris@east.la.asu.edu
University of Minnesota	Remote Sensing of Water Resources.	water@gis.umn.edu
American Museum of Natural History / NASA / Center for Biodiversity and Conservation	Application of remote sensing to conservation.	biodiversity@amnh.org

Tutorials

Resource	Description	Contact
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing	Natural resource remote sensing with emphasis on Canadian resources.	webmaster@nrcan.gc.ca
COMET/UCAR/NSF	Quick introduction to remote sensing. Exceptional graphics.	info@comet.ucar.edu
NASA Archeological Remote Sensing	Introduction to remote sensing in the context of archeological studies.	diane.samuelson@msfc.nasa.gov
NASA general tutorial	Detailed tutorial with emphasis on science and history of remote sensing.	nmshort@TowerMicro.net
Purdue University MultiSpec	Freeware Multispectral Image Data Analysis System including documentation and tutorial.	biehl@purdue.edu
Geographer's Craft: Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing	Introductory tutorial by Shannon Crum, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder.	k.foote@colorado.edu
USFS Training Opportunities	Instructor lead, Webcasts, and On-Line Tutorials	Mike morrison

Many landscape-scale projects employ remote-sensing technology. Landscape-scale projects and protocols at National Park Service are available here.

Contact Gareth Rowell for questions, comments, or additional information for this page.

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Education and Applications

Applications

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Tutorials