Restoration monitoring metric framework: Integrating innovative remote-sensing technologies: Comparisons between field and remotely sensed vegetation surveys of restored forested and grassland sites in Ohio

Final Technical Report ERDC/EL TR-24-19
DOI Office of Restoration and Damage Assessment; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; National Park Service; Bureau of Reclamation; Bureau of Land Management; DOI Office of the Solicitor
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Abstract

Restoration monitoring is generally perceived as costly and time-consuming, yet the concept of universal restoration monitoring metrics is trending for evaluation of restoration performance across spatial scales, project boundaries, and jurisdictions. Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) practitioners seek to restore natural resources injured by oil spills or hazardous substance releases into the environment. Therefore, a multiagency team [US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), US Department of the Interior (DOI), and US Department of Energy (DOE)] developed and field-tested a multitiered monitoring framework, illustrating a range of field and remote-sensing techniques and methodologies. The restoration monitoring framework and field demonstration offer a unique methodology to acquire and evaluate simultaneously collected, multiscale/multiplatform data. The result of this research provides new insights to (1) assist planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration progress and effectiveness; and (2) apply common monitoring methods, endpoints, and metrics to other types of ecosystem restoration initiatives. Although the aim was to inform monitoring and management of areas that had been injured, these methods could also be used to inform restoration monitoring practices in a broader context, benefiting environmental stewardship missions of all project partners.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype Federal Government Series
Title Restoration monitoring metric framework: Integrating innovative remote-sensing technologies: Comparisons between field and remotely sensed vegetation surveys of restored forested and grassland sites in Ohio
Series title Final Technical Report
Series number ERDC/EL TR-24-19
DOI 10.21079/11681/49490
Publication Date December 12, 2024
Year Published 2024
Language English
Publisher US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center
Contributing office(s) Columbia Environmental Research Center
Description xxiv, 272 p.
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