Lawrence Fox III, Gordon L. Bonser, Steven A. Carlson,
Humboldt State University
Arcata, California, U.S.A.
William M. Kier
William M. Kier Associates
Sausalito, California, U.S.A.
The Klamath Basin Virtual GIS Data Facility ("GIS Facility") has been established at Humboldt State University in support of the Klamath Basin Ecosystem Restoration Office's (ERO) mission of holistic resource management for the President's Forest Plan, "Klamath Province" (10.6 million acres) and the congressionally-defined Klamath Economic Zone (19.7 million acres). The ERO mission requires integrated, co-registered, and seamless GIS data layers covering political and administrative boundaries; lithospheric, hydrographic and atmospheric elements; plant and animal community characteristics, socioeconomic components, and descriptive landscape statistics including temporal dimensions. We report on one aspect of the vegetation mapping phase of the project in this paper. Summer, 1994 Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery was classified using hybrid clustering techniques to produce maps of existing vegetation in two key watersheds in the Klamath hydro-basin. The vegetation maps were overlaid with 90-meter buffer zones defined from stream vectors to assess near-stream conditions in the Shasta and Scott river sub-basins. The shade producing potential of near-stream vegetation cover was evaluated using area summaries by vegetation type. Our analysis suggests that riparian vegetation restoration is of even greater urgency in the Shasta than in the Scott; a conclusion confirmed by field inventory.
June 14, 1996
To: Hal Campbell
Steve Carlson
Jim Smith, Dean NR&S
Forestry Dept. Secretary
NRPI Dept. Secretary
CS Dept. Secretary
Academic Information and Referral Center
Admission and Records
From: Larry Fox, Forestry Dept.
Subject: Certificate of Study in GIS & Remote Sensing
__________________________________________________________________________
The enclosed information sheet represents the 1996-97 version of the
Certificate of Study in GIS and Remote Sensing with all course numbers
consistent with the 96-97 Catalog. Content has not been modified, only
course numbers and titles have changed to reflect the current catalog.
Students apply for the certificate at Admissions and Records and are
encouraged to do so during the semester before the semester in which they
graduate. This to allow any problems with transcript evaluation to be
cleared up before they leave town.
Please also encourage students, who plan to earn the Certificate, to send an
email message to me (lf1@axe.humboldt.edu) so that I can keep a log of the
amount of interest in this Certificate. Based on the email activity of last
year, we now have about 20 students pursuing the Certificate.
HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY
CERTIFICATE OF STUDY
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
AND REMOTE SENSING
The Certificate of Study in Geographic Information Systems and Remote
Sensing prepares students to apply the technologies of computerized
geographic information systems (GIS), and multispectral remote sensing
including digital image processing, to various disciplines. The program is
intended to focus and document training in GIS, remote sensing and related
technologies.
The following courses are required for the certificate:
Course No. Title Units
1. CIS 475 Geographic Info. Systems: Spatial Anal. & Modeling (3)
2. CIS 480 Selected Topics: "Database for Non-majors" (3)
3. GEOG 315 Cartography (3)
4. NRPI 470 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3)
5. NRPI 570 Techniques in GIS Analysis Seminar (3)
6. NRPI 277 Introduction to Remote Sensing -or-
FOR 316 Forest Remote Sensing and GIS (3) or (4)
7. FOR 477 Computer Module - Remote Image Processing -or-
FOR 506 Advanced Principles of Remote Sensing & GIS (3) or (4)
Total Units Required: 20 to 22
(depending upon courses selected)
FACULTY
CONTACTS Department Office Location Phone
Hal Campbell Computing Science Nelson Hall West, rm 233 826-3382
Steve Carlson Nat. Res. Plan. & Interp. NR build, rm 200 826-3438
Larry Fox Forestry Natural Resources, rm 114
826-4280
Effective for the 1996-1997 Academic Year