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<br />24 <br /> <br />included: a canyon-wide shoreline habitat map; an automated fine-grained sediment inventory <br />and camping beach analysis developed from digital imagery; an automated tool for generating <br />composite terrestrial/hydrographic cross-sections and virtual shorelines in support of hydrologic <br />modeling; and large-scale river map guides, <br />The GIS program will lead the effort in implementing the automated core monitoring <br />technologies and applications approach, This effort is designed to quickly and accurately <br />classify large sets ofraster and vector data into core monitoring information that are useful to <br />scientists and resource managers, Future GIS efforts will focus on automated analyses of <br />remotely-sensed data in support of specific physical, biological and cultural resource projects <br />and core monitoring missions, as well as continued integration of spatial information for <br />scientific analysis and reporting, In FY2003, the GIS program demonstrated that automated <br />processing of multi-spectral digital imagery could be utilized to accurately map vegetation and <br />the two-dimensional distribution of fine-grained sediment deposits above 8,000 cfs on a canyon- <br />wide basis, In FY2004-05, these analyses will be repeated with an emphasis on change <br />detection, Techniques will also be developed for automated processing and classification of data <br />acquired from the terrestrial and hydrographic LiDAR missions and existing multi-beam sonar <br />data, <br /> <br />SOCIO-CUL TURAL RESOURCES <br />The Sociocultural Program has traditionally been a stand alone program within the <br />GCMRC's organizational structure, In GCMRC's new organization structure, the program's <br />independent status has been maintained, but the research and monitoring initiatives of the <br />program will be realigned with GCMRC's over-arching integrated science framework, Under. <br />GCMRC's new organizational structure and approach, research and monitoring projects <br />conducted in support of sociocultural program needs will be coordinated and integrated with <br />ongoing research and monitoring activities in the Integrated Science Program, Data collected <br />through the sociocultural program's research and monitoring projects will be stored and analyzed <br />using the Oracle database engine and GIS spatial positioning technologies, allowing impacts of <br />dam operations on cultural components of the Colorado River Ecosystem to be evaluated and <br />analyzed in conjunction with physical and biological elements, <br />In the past, GCMRC's sociocultural program has been defined in terms of three program <br />elements: cultural resources, recreational resources, and socioeconomics. In reality, these <br />GCMRC FY2005-2006 Draft Annual Work Plan (November 10, 2003) <br />