Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing

<p>Various military training activities are conducted in more than 11.3 million hectares of land (> 5,500 training sites) in the United States (U.S.). These training activities directly and indirectly degrade the land. Land degradation can impede continuous military training. In order to sustain long term training missions and Army combat readiness, the environmental conditions of the military installations need to be carefully monitored and assessed. Furthermore, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the U.S. Army Regulation 200-2 require the DoD to minimize the environmental impacts of training and document the environmental consequences of their actions. To achieve these objectives, the Department of Army initiated an Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) program to manage training lands through assessing their environmental requirements and establishing policies and procedures to achieve optimum, sustainable use of training lands. One of the programs under ITAM, Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA) was established to collect field-based data for monitoring installation’s environmental condition.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Only Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Environmental Resources & Policy

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Rijal, Santosh

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wang, Guangxing
• Schoof, Justin
• Woodford, Philip

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1399

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2404