Determining Viable Methods to Monitor Landscape Patterns in National Park Service Units of the Northern and Southern Colorado Plateau Networks

Park units of the Northern and Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Networks (NCPN and SCPN, respectively) of the USDI National Park Service have identified a need for long-term monitoring of landscape patterns and land use change. 

The Colorado Plateau (CP) networks have selected land use/land cover, landscape vegetation pattern/landscape structure, land or vegetation condition, and disturbance patterns as core vital signs to monitor. The goal of our work is to use existing literature and focused pilot studies to investigate whether remote sensing technologies may be used to develop maps of these indicators both at a single date and over time, and to subsequently develop protocols that can be transferred to the NPS for this map development.

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