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Abstract
Integrating Real-Time Environmental Data into GIS-Based Military Land Management SystemsTrack: Defense and Intelligence
Author(s): Mark Ragnar Leipnik
A three-year effort to use a system of telemetered digital sensors to gather real-time hydrologic, weather, and soil moisture data and use that data to improve land management through incorporation of the data into GIS-based environmental models is discussed. Three watersheds in Fort Hood, Texas, undergoing high, moderate, and low levels of disturbance from military training activities are under study. Real-time stream level, turbidity, soil moisture, rainfall, temperature, solar radiation, wind speed and direction, and fuel stick moisture data is gathered and transmitted via cell phone telemetry and served over the Internet so it can be integrated into finite difference watershed and erosion models. These models incorporate 10- and 30-meter DEMs and various GIS coverages that were developed from field studies, interpretation of remotely sensed imagery, and digital aerial photography by the author and his staff at the GIS Lab of the Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies in Huntsville, Texas.
Mark Ragnar Leipnik
Sam Houston State University
1900 Ave I, Room 300.
Huntsville, AL 77341-2148
USA
Phone: (936) 294-3698
Fax: (936) 294-3940
E-mail: geo_mrl@shsu.edu