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Evaluation of Integrating the Invasive Species Forecasting System to Support National Park Service Decisions on Fire Management Activities and Invasive Plant Species ControlThe USGS and NASA, in conjunction with Colorado State University, George Mason University and other partners, have developed the Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS), a flexible tool that capitalizes on NASA's remote sensing resource to produce dynamic habitat maps of invasive terrestrial plant species across the United States. In 2006 ISFS was adopted to generate predictive invasive habitat maps to benefit noxious plant and fire management teams in three major National Park systems: The Greater Yellowstone Area (Yellowstone / Grand Tetons National Parks), Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, and interior Alaskan (between Denali, Gates of The Arctic and Yukon-Charley). One of the objectives of this study is to explore how the ISFS enhances decision support apparatus in use by National Park management teams. The first step with each park system was to work closely with park managers to select top-priority invasive species. Specific species were chosen for each study area based on management priorities, availability of observational data, and their potential for invasion after fire disturbances. Once focal species were selected, sources of presence/absence data were collected from previous surveys for each species in and around the Parks. Using logistic regression to couple presence/absence points with environmental data layers, the first round of ISFS habitat suitability maps were generated for each National Park system and presented during park visits over the summer of 2006. This first engagement provided a demonstration of what the park service can expect from ISFS and initiated the ongoing dialog on how the parks can best utilized the system to enhance their decisions related to invasive species control. During the park visits it was discovered that separate "expert opinion" maps would provide a valuable baseline to compare against the ISFS model output. Opinion maps are a means of spatially representing qualitative knowledge into a quantitative two-dimensional map. Furthermore, our approach combines the qualitative expert opinion habitat maps -- with the quantitative ISFS habitat maps in a difference map that shows where the two maps agree and disagree. The objective of the difference map is to help focus future field sampling and improve model results. This paper presents a demonstration of the habitat, expert opinion, and difference map for Yellowstone National Park.
Document ID
20070035134
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Ma, Peter
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Morisette, T.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rodman, Ann
(National Park Service United States)
McClure, Craig
(National Park Service United States)
Pedelty, Jeff
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Benson, Nate
(National Park Service United States)
Paintner, Kara
(National Park Service United States)
Most, Neal
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ullah, Asad
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Cai, Weijie
(George Mason Univ. Fairfax, VA, United States)
Rocca, Monique
(Colorado State Univ. CO, United States)
Silverman, Joel
(Colorado State Univ. CO, United States)
Schunase, John L.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
July 23, 2007
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) ''07
Location: Barcelona
Country: Spain
Start Date: July 23, 2007
End Date: July 27, 2007
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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