Catalog of Military Installation Applications for Classified and Declassified Satellite Imagery

摘要

The United States is making available both formerly and currently classified satellite imagery to support environmental evaluation. Military land managers expressed interest in using these materials. The technological and staff resources to integrate the imagery into regular land management activities exist at the installations. Installation staff indicated that their greatest need was workbook examples of how this material could be applied to their land management activities. This catalog provides illustrative examples. The applications were chosen based on expressed installation needs. The most commonly requested application examples are also those that ca be the easiest to carry out and provide the greatest cost savings. Access to secure resources on the installation and need for clearances are not requirements for using the analyses illustrated. Application areas described in this report include: ecosystem change, habitat change, urban and land use change, road construction, analysis visualization techniques, discovery of former training ranges, vegetation trend analysis in support of regional management, forestry management, fire burn recovery, discovery of old disposal sites, extending climate change trend analysis baselines, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) support, wetland change, invasive species, cultural resources examination, sea- weed distribution and determination of predeployment environmental baseline conditions overseas.