RAPID Technique: A New Method for Evaluating Downstream Effects of Forest Practices on Riparian Zones

摘要

The RAPID (riparian aerial photographic inventory of disturbance) technique is a method for using measurements made on aerial photographs of patterns of riparian canopy disturbance to evaluate changes in channel of conditions through time and to link such changes with their possible upstream causes. The RAPID technique provides resource specialists and managers with a relatively quick way of identifying stream reaches that are chronically or recently disturbed by a variety of channel processes including increased peak flows and sedimentation from point and non-point sources.