Principal Investigator: Greg Desmond Project Personnel: Ed Cyran, Gordon Shupe, Chuck Henkle, Vince Caruso, Bob Glover and Gary Freeman Proposals, Project Summaries and Work Plan Data Metadata Publications

For more information, please see the Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development Project Webpage.

Summary

The objective of this project is to model sheet flow over the extremely low relief terrain of South Florida.

Remote sensing, image processing, geographic information system technologies and current research into hydrological, climatological, and ecological applications of these technologies will be employed to derive scientific information used in describing, understanding, and modeling vegetation patterns and hydrologic processes for the purposes of natural resource decision making and restoration monitoring in South Florida.

The overall task has been divided into three primary components with specific objectives and general classes of clients. For each component, we will systematically develop, evaluate, and apply the techniques which yield the most appropriate, spatially distributed information possible on the vegetation, climate, and hydrologic variables of interest to South Florida project scientists. The study designs for each component include the combination of field campaigns (to provide information for data calibration and accuracy assessment) and extensive techniques development using state-of-the-art hardware, software, and physical process modeling. Collected data will be processed (e.g., to mitigate atmospheric effects and conduct data fusion to infer biophysical fields) to maximize their information content. Collaborative use of the resulting information products will allow us to evaluate their utility for process modeling and environmental monitoring while facilitating outreach and technology transfer.

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