Emerging tools and technologies in watershed management

Scott N. Miller; D. Phillip Guertin; David C. Goodrich

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Emerging tools and technologies in watershed management

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Authors:

Scott N. Miller, D. Phillip Guertin, David C. Goodrich

Year:

2000

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Ffolliott, Peter F.; Baker Jr., Malchus B.; Edminster, Carleton B.; Dillon, Madelyn C.; Mora, Karen L., tech. coords. Land Stewardship in the 21st Century: The Contributions of Watershed Management; 2000 March 13-16; Tucson, AZ. Proc. RMRS-P-13. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 194-204.

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Abstract

The field of watershed management is highly dependent on spatially distributed data. Over the past decade, significant advances have been made toward the capture, storage, and use of spatial data. Emerging tools and technologies hold great promise for improving the scientific understanding of watershed processes and are already revolutionizing watershed research. Issues of scale, error, and uncertainty are highly relevant to understanding surface processes and are intimately tied to these emerging tools. This paper provides a summary of some of the ways in which global positioning systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing and distributed models are being integrated to provide information to the scientific and management communities.

Parent Publication

Land Stewardship in the 21st Century: The Contributions of Watershed Management; 2000 March 13-16; Tucson, AZ

Keywords

land stewardship, watershed management, ecosystem-based management, natural resources, conservation, sustainable development, sustainable use

Citation

Guertin, D. Phillip; Miller, Scott N.; Goodrich, David C. 2000. Emerging tools and technologies in watershed management. In: Ffolliott, Peter F.; Baker Jr., Malchus B.; Edminster, Carleton B.; Dillon, Madelyn C.; Mora, Karen L., tech. coords. Land Stewardship in the 21st Century: The Contributions of Watershed Management; 2000 March 13-16; Tucson, AZ. Proc. RMRS-P-13. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 194-204.