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Consequences of FY06 Funding Recommendations: Owing to the fact that the FY 2005 experimental and monitoring budget was able to support a system-wide digital overflight in support of the Experimental High-Flow Test for both sediment and terrestrial vegetation, the FY 2006 budget for this project is reduced to cover only one-third of salary of the GCMRC's Remote-Sensing Coordinator within the DASA. This strategy allows funds to be made available to support the FY 2006 (fourth year) of experimental mechanical removal of salmonids below Lees Ferry. Status/Schedule: The System-wide remote sensing mission is scheduled for May 2005 (with another flight proposed for 2009) with products expected to be delivered by the end of September 2005. During the first half of FY 2006, a quality and accuracy period will immediately follow the receipt of all deliverables and should take approximately one to four months, after which time existing automated procedures will be adapted for the newly acquired data and used to perform a variety of spatial analyses designed to determine changes to the resource over time. The remainder of FY 2006, the DASA staffwill upgrade the various servers associated with the Oracle data base, so as to prepare for management and serving of the 2005 imagery. Some limited analyses of the imagery, relating to the November 2004 Experimental High-Flow Test, will also occur during FY 2006, within the context of final analysis and reporting by the Fine-Grained Storage research project. Expected Productsmeliverables: . Canyon-wide, four band, multi-spectral digital imagery at 18 cm spatial resolution. . Canyon-wide, panchromatic digital imagery at 18 cm spatial resolution. . Canyon-wide, digital surface model at I meter spatial resolution. Integration: The system-wide imagery dataset will provide the necessary base information for all mapping and spatial analysis, and coupled with selected automated-classification techniques, the data will then be made available to the physical, biological and cultural resource programs as baseline monitoring data and information from which program assessments can be made, resource theses tested, and more detailed data collection efforts planned. GCMRC FY2006 Annual Work Plan (Draft, June 10,2005) 33 e e .