Land Condition Trend Analysis (LCTA) Data Collection Software Users Manual.Version 1.0

摘要

The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USACERL) developedthe Land Condition-Trend Analysis (LCTA) program, a component of the Integrated Training Area Management program (lTAM). LCTA involves the inventory and monitoring of natural resources to document resource condition and assess the ability of the land to withstand impacts from training and testing. Data is gathered annually on vegetation cover and composition, land use, and surface disturbance. This manual details the installation and use of customized LCTA data collection, database loading, and editing software. Each chapter covering the four software programs lists minimum system requirements for running the program.