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<br />Status/Schedule: FY06-09: FY06 represents tbe start up year of a multi-year effort to <br />evaluate changes in campable area and other attributes that are important to the . <br />maintaining a high quality recreational experience in the CRE. The first year will <br />emphasize continuation of existing campable area measurements while simultaneously <br />evaluating the appropriateness of using remotely sensed data as a proxy measure of <br />campable area change and refining methods for calculating sand area and vegetation <br />change. If sufficient funding is approved, we will also embark on inventorying current <br />campsites and compiling baseline campsite data. Collection of system-wide digital <br />imagery will occur in May 2005 as a follow up to the November 2004 experimental high <br />flow; analysis of this digital data set will continue through FY09. This project builds <br />upon and integrates the previous work of Kaplin ski et al. (2003), Kaplinski et al. (2005) <br />Breedlove (2003), and the ongoing Adopt-A-Beach effort. <br /> <br />Expected Productsmeliverables: In FY06, surveyors will continue the current program <br />of mapping campable areas at selected campsites throughout the CRE, and these data will <br />be analyzed and compared with polygons generated through remotely sensed data and <br />GIS technology to systematically evaluate the comparability and reliability of these two . <br />different approaches. Two reports will be generated, one comparing changes in the <br />surveyed campable area from October 2003 to May 2005, and evaluating campable area <br />change in relation to sand bar topographic changes; a second report will evaluate the <br />surveyed data in relation to campable area polygons produced via remote sensing and <br />GIS analysis. <br /> <br />If sufficient funding is available in FY06, in addition to the above products, a series of <br />GIS layers composed of I) previously inventoried camp sites tied to spatially-referenced <br />digital imagery, 2) current campsites with NPS management boundaries and actual use <br />areas delineated; 3) a comprehensive inventory of potentially campable sand areas (based <br />on remote sensing analysis); and 4) vegetation change within delineated camp sites will <br />be produced. A thorough GIS-based analysis of these data will be conducted to <br />I) document changes in type, distribution and size of camp sites over time, and <br />2) document encroachment of vegetation on campable areas. The GIS data will be <br /> <br />. <br />