Vegetation Structural Characteristics at Selected Sites in the Panama Canal Zone and Thailand

Abstract

A mission of the Degradation Effects Program (DEP), formerly Joint Environmental Effects Program (JEEP), is to extrapolate estimates of lethality and munition effectiveness in DEP test environments to Southeast Asian environments. If these extrapolations are to be reliable it is imperative that the environmental conditions of the test areas be similar to those of Southeast Asia. Accordingly, objective comparisons must be made of DEP test environments and Southeast Asian environments. This report describes and compares some significant vegetation structural characteristics of two selected DEP sites in the Pina and Balboa forests in the Panama Canal Zone (CZ) and four selected sites in two forests and two rubber plantations in Thailand.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0848404

Entities

People

  • Harold W. West

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ammunition
  • Asia
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Processing
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Foliage
  • Forests
  • Graphs
  • Ground Photographs
  • Munitions
  • Panama Canal
  • Photographs
  • Plants
  • Southeast Asia
  • Vegetation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Urban Planning and Geography.