Presenter/s: Mischa Hey
Symposium Session: 2024 - 03 Learning from Our Past: Lessons on Monitoring from Tribal Restoration Programs Now and in the Future
Topics covered: modeling and traditional ecological knowledge
ABSTRACT
As tribes continue to adopt and leverage remote sensing to guide and inform riverine monitoring and assessment, there may be additional value in the data that is not being fully exploited. Remote sensing and spatial analytics have substantial utility to support riverine and floodplain assessment and monitoring at extents not feasible with traditional field surveys. This presentation will provide an overview of relevant technologies such as topobathymetric lidar, sonar, and multiple imagery types, as well as processes for integrating and analyzing these data. Broad-scale, objective, and reproducible analytics allow for geographic and temporal comparison across entire river systems to aid in inundation modeling, restoration prioritization, efficacy monitoring, and more. Quantification and mapping of geomorphic features, thermal refugia, floodplain connectivity, instream structure, riparian vegetation, solar exposure, and water quality are some of the applications we will review. The goal of this presentation is to provide tribal entities and their partners information on how to leverage the concept of digital twins in natural systems through remote sensing technologies, data fusion, and analytics to get the most out of their data.