伙伴关系将改善切萨皮克湾流域的河流测绘

项目资金由切萨皮克湾信托基金提供

安纳波利斯, MD – Advances in technology will enable 十大赌博正规老平台 to map streams throughout the watershed with unprecedented precision and accuracy. 十大赌博正规老平台 recently received funding from the Chesapeake Bay Trust and will partner with researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop a methodology for mapping stream channels throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

的保护 and UMBC will take advantage of the high level of detail available from new technology to improve the stream mapping of headwater streams. 合作伙伴将探索使用光探测和测距(LiDAR). LiDAR uses pulses of light from an airplane to collect information about the earth’s surface, similar to how radar collects information about a vehicle or other object’s speed. The data collected using LiDAR can be used to digitally model the surface of a landscape in great detail.

The project will begin with extensive field surveys to locate and record the location of existing stream channels with GPS to accurately establish where channels begin. The team will then compare this baseline data with different techniques for high-resolution mapping in order to improve the mapping of small streams. These narrow waterways are often under-represented in existing stream datasets.

“这个项目, 在基金会奖助金审查过程中排名很高, has the potential to greatly advance how and where we as a community support restoration projects” said Jana Davis, 切萨皮克湾信托基金的执行董事. “从这些努力中获得了新的信息, 我们将能够最大限度地提高修复项目的效率.”

“The 十大赌博正规老平台 is grateful for this opportunity provided by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and is excited to partner with UMBC. This project will bring together decades of scientific and geospatial experience and create scientifically rigorous methodologies that have the potential to work across a variety of different scales and landscapes,” 十大赌博正规老平台 Director of Conservation Technology Jeff Allenby said. “Accurate stream maps are critical to our understanding of how terrestrial and aquatic systems are connected throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As we develop a better understanding of how water moves throughout this network, we will improve our ability to effectively direct conservation and restoration efforts where they are most needed and track progress in our goals of improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay.”

“LiDAR surface models hold great potential for mapping streams because stream channels carved by running water are readily visible”, 十大赌博正规老平台协会地理空间分析师大卫·萨维德拉说. “通过使用激光雷达, 我们将能够更详细、更准确地绘制流图, creating an invaluable resource for conservation and restoration planning.”

“Mapping stream channels is a deceptively complex undertaking that has long plagued scientists and geographers alike” says UMBC Geography & 环境系统教授马修·贝克. “与大自然保护协会和他们的专业团队合作, I think there is great potential to streamline the translation of new knowledge directly into application in service of Bay restoration.”

该合作伙伴预计将于2018年6月完成该项目.

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关于切萨皮克湾信托基金

切萨皮克湾信托基金(www.cbtrust.org) is a nonprofit grant-making organization dedicated to improving the natural resources of Maryland and the Chesapeake region through environmental education, 社区参与, 以及当地的流域恢复. The Trust engages hundreds of thousands of individuals annually in projects that have a measurable impact on the waterways and other natural resources of the region. The Trust is supported by the sale of the Treasure the Chesapeake license plate, donations to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund on the Maryland State income tax form, 来自个人和公司的捐款, and partnerships with private foundations and federal and state agencies. The Trust has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator for fourteen years: 92 percent of the Trust’s expenditures are directed to its restoration and education programs.

关于切萨皮克十大赌博正规老平台协会

 The 十大赌博正规老平台’s mission is to strengthen the connection between people and the watershed; conserve the landscapes and special places that sustain the Chesapeake’s unique natural and cultural resources; and restore landscapes, 河流, 和切萨皮克湾地区的栖息地. We empower the conservation community with access to the latest data and technology. As principal partner for the National Park Service on the John Smith Chesapeake Trail, we helped create 108 new public access sites and permanently protect some of the Bay’s special places like Werowocomoco, 黑水国家野生动物保护区, 哈丽特·塔布曼地下铁路国家历史公园, 和门罗堡国家纪念碑. v7t9m5.sunzixuan.com