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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
USGS Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies Use of LIDAR for Coastal and Watershed Studies. jbrock@usgs.gov
anayegandhi@usgs.gov
USGS Land Remote Sensing Program Application of remote sensing to conservation. See "Contact Land Remote Sensing" on remote site.
USFS Remote Sensing Application Center (RSAC) Forest Service's Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC). See "Contact Us" on remote site.
American Museum of Natural History / NASA / Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Application of remote sensing to conservation. See "general inquiries" on remote site.
Arizona State University Geological Remote Sensing Laboratory Land Cover Classification: Central Arizona LTER Site. See "Contact Us" on remote site.
University of Minnesota Remote Sensing of Water Resources. water@gis.umn.edu
University of Washington, School of Forest Resources, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory Research rich environment and exceptional resources. lmmoskal@u.washington.edu
Informatics.org France GIS and Remote Sensing for Archeology: Burgundy, France. madry@informatics.org
 

Tutorials

Resource Description Contact
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Natural resource remote sensing with emphasis on Canadian resources. See "Contact CCRS" on remote site.
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. James.L.Smoot@nasa.gov or page curator diane.samuelson@msfc.nasa.gov
NASA general tutorial Detailed tutorial with emphasis on science and history of remote sensing. nmshort@verizon.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

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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