2006-onwards...
We are evaluating several Research and OUtreach INitiatives for the
MLC workgroup to concentrate on. These incude:
- Watersheds
- Invasive
Species
- Land
Use/Land Cover change
- Bio-Regional
Planning
- Conservation
- Rangelands
- Outreach & GIS
tools
- Working
Landsapes
2000-2002.
Multi-scale Multi-Source Monitoring
Methods of Landscape Change was funded for 2 years.
The
MLC workgroup, using funds from previous years, has developed a
strategy for monitoring Sudden Oak Death
in California. The monitoring strategy developed is multi-scale (it collects
and displays data at multiple scales from individual trees to regions of
elevated oak mortality) and multi-source (gathering and storing information
from many different sources), and flexible (it can be adapted to include
different sources), and uses web-based mapping technologies. A large
component of this project is the “OakMapper” website. Continued support
was granted to refine and expand this project to include other invasive
pest monitoring.
To view
the OakMapper, click
here.
The
OakMapper website is a WebGIS application that offers users the
ability to view, navigate through, and
perform standard and customized spatial and database queries. The
data displayed is scalable, so the more you zoom in the greater detail
is shown. The site also has hyperlinks to photographs of the disease on
various hosts around the state. The site is also linked to an on-line report
form for the public to submit the location and description of trees that
might be infected with P. ramorum. These reports are spatially linked to
the entire SOD database.
2002.
Invasive Species Outreach
We
have developed, in conjunction with a statewide weed mapping group,
a GIS manual for
mapping invasive species.
2002.
Geospatial Technologies in County
CE survey.
We have begun a survey of GIS needs
and capabilities in Counties' CE offices. Results are posted here.
