Statistical Design Chapter - Outline (landscape portion)

• Maps 
  • Wetland inventory description [volunteer = Hummer?]

• •  Stressor Gradient description [volunteer = Host & Hollenhorst!]
• Site Selection
  • Sampling the population of GL coastal wetlands [volunteer = Host!]
    • defining discreet wetland complexes
  • Stratifying site selection [volunteer = Host? Hollenhorst!]
    • applying the stressor gradient

Landscape Metrics Chapter - Outline

Objectives and Background (1.5 pages)

• Wetlands Conditions (Status) [Bourgeau-Chavez?, Lopez!, Hummer?]
• Trends [volunteer = Bourgeau-Chavez and Hummer?]
• Ecological Functions [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]

Interaction with Site Specific Indicators (0.5 page - briefly refer [link, if .pdf/html formatted doc?] out to other chapters)

Volunteer (Host!) 

Relevant Existing Indicators (1.5 pages - tabular?)

• SOLEC Indicators [volunteer =  Trebitz! - COMPLETED]
• GLEI Indicators [volunteer = Host!]
• Habitat Fragmentation [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]
• Composition of Invasive Macrophytes [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]
• Adjacent Surface Hydrology Changes / Impervious Surfaces [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Others not listed - please add to list ASAP [volunteers = ALL]

Other Applications of Coastal Wetlands Landscape Monitoring Protocols  (1 page - tabular?)

• Support for Regulatory Programs [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Lake-wide Management Plans [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]
• Great Lakes Interagency Task Force - Wetlands Subcommitee [volunteer = Trebitz!]
• Others not listed - please add to list ASAP [volunteers = ALL]

GLCWC Wetlands Inventory  (2 pages)

• Compilation Methods [volunteer = Bourgeau-Chavez and Hummer?]
• Utility [volunteer = Hummer?]
• Shortcomings [volunteer = Trebitz! - COMPLETED]

Historic Wetlands Mapping Programs (1.5 pages - tabular, noting [at a minimum] program's stated purpose/goal, extent, scale, source, acq. date(s)?)

     We should build the table and then ask for input on this one.  Table building volunteer Bourgeau-Chavez

• U.S. National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) [volunteer = Huberty?]
• National Land Cover Database (NLCD) [volunteer = Huberty?]
• Coastal Change Assessment Program (C-CAP) [volunteer = Huberty?]
• Canadian National Programs [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Minnesota [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Wisconsin WISCLAND [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Illinois [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Indiana [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Michigan Resource Information System - Current Use Inventory (MIRIS-CUI) [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Ohio Geospatial Resource Information Program (OGRIP) [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Pennsyslvania [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• New York [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Ontario [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Others not listed - please add to list ASAP [volunteers = ALL]

Required Spatial and Temporal Monitoring Requirements  (1 page)

• Comprehensive Inventories versus Statistical Sampling [volunteer = Host?]
• (Spatial?) Scale Utility and Limitations [volunteer = Host! and if you get it going George...Lopez will add two cents!]
• Temporal Consistency across the Great Lakes Basin [volunteer = Host!]
  Recommended Classification Detail and Accuracies (1.5 pages)

Existing Remote Sensing Resources [first grouping = tabular, with costs, etc...?] and Methods [second grouping, narrative?] (4 pages)

• Aerial Photography [volunteer = Huberty?]
• Aerial Imagery [volunteer = Huberty?]
• Coarse Resolution Satellite Imagery (>100 meter pixel) [volunteer = Laura!]
• Moderate Resolution Satellite Imagery (30-100 meter pixel) [volunteer = Laura!]
• High Resolution Satellite Imagery (1-5 meter pixel) [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]
• Airborne and Spaceborne Radar Imagery [volunteer = Bourgeau-Chavez!]
• Airborne and Spaceborne hyperspectral Imagery [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED] 
• Airborne LiDAR data [volunteer = Gauthier?]
• Costs, Accuracies, Timeliness, and Availability [volunteer = ALL in this section - tabular?]
  
  
• Canadian Wetlands Inventory Approach [volunteer = Grenier?]
• Bourgeau-Chavez Prototype [volunteer = Bourgeau-Chavez!}
• Lopez Invasive Assessments [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED] 
• A brief synthesis of the methods [volunteers = Lopez!, Bourgeau-Chavez?, and Grenier?]

Improved Wetland Classification Approaches, Ancillary Data and Processing  (1.5 pages)

• Elevation Data [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Soils [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Others not listed - please add to list ASAP [volunteers = ALL]
• Processing Approaches [volunteer = Gauthier!]
• Site-Specific Indicator Data as Training Sites (insure that all ground data has positional attributes) [volunteer = Gauthier!]

Landscape Metrics Integration (based on Lopez report) (2 pages)

• Adjacent Land Use/Cover [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]
• Climatic/Hydrologic Change [volunteer = Lopez! - COMPLETED]

GLEI Stressor Gradient (2 pages) [volunteer = Hollenhorst1 and Host!]

Recommended Long-Term Landscape Monitoring Protocols (2 pages)

• Landscape monitoring of coastal wetlands (this section will discuss extent, type) [volunteer = Bourgeau-Chavez!] 
  • Design
  • Protocols
  • Data collection and management
  • Interpretation
• Landscape monitoring of coastal watersheds (monitoring trends in landscape-scale stressors to coastal watersheds over time) [volunteer = Host!] 
  • Design
  • Protocols
  • Data collection and management
  • Interpretation

Implementation Approaches (1 page) [volunteer = Gauthier!]

Product Synthesis and Dissemination (1 page) [volunteer = Giencke and Hollenhorst!]

Image test, George's dog -sorry puppy no pages for you  (GH - that's OK, she spends all her free time on My Space anyway...)

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Remote sensing provides a cost effective method for monitoring the earth at scales from local to global.  There is not one ideal protocol for mapping and monitoring landscape indicators of wetland health, rather the method and optimal data source needs to be scaled to the functional need.   In some cases high frequency temporal data are needed of moderate spatial resolution (30-100 m), while in other cases low frequency temporal data of high spatial resolution are necessary.  For that reason, this document will lay out the data sources available, their strengths and weaknesses and the suggested  mapping and monitoring protocols based on "status" and "trends" categories. 

Status

1. current inventory (sampling population)
2. Sampling framework (strata- i.e. lakes, eco-region, stressors etc.)
3. sample size required (how many to sample each year?)
4. remote sensing/mapping methods to update current baseline map
5. indicators of current status
   1. area by type
   2. restored area
   3. adjacent habitat
   4. land use adjacent

1. trends
   1. monitoring framework
      1. wetland (field monitoring)
         1. all sampling in the other indicator groups must include GPS locations of samples to be integrated here.
            1. flora/fauna
            2. physical/Chemical
               1. changes in water levels
         2. need to determine the number of in situ validation sites to be included per unit area mapped
      2. remotely sensed monitoring
         1.  human impact measures
            1. land use/land cover change
               1. intensity of land use
            2. spatial measurements of changes in annual extent of inundation (climate or anthropogenic influence)
2. How to interpret results
3. Data Handling and Storage

build tables of:

1. Remote sensing sources/platforms (these were created by Veridian for the USACOE in 2001-I have a hardcopy only), does not include quickbird or other more recent satellites)
2. wetland inventory data
3. ancillary data sets
   1. DOQQ's / other aerial photography
   2. base map data
4. stressor data
5. useful landscape metric

develop agenda for April 25th meeting