Land Condition Trend Analysis Data Summaries: Preliminary Data Applications.

Abstract

The Army' s Land Condition Trend Analysis (LCTA) program is the standard for land inventory and monitoring, using standard methods of natural resources data collection, analyses, and reporting designed to meet multiple goals and objectives. This report presents a general overview of LCTA data applications and documentation capabilities for use in natural resource management plans and other environmental compliance documents. Specifically, this report focuses on preliminary summarization of univariate vegetation and wildlife data collected on LCTA core plots. Analyses presented are intended to provide Army land managers a greater degree of flexibility with respect to characterizing the condition of the installation's natural resources, but by no means represents an exhaustive treatment of analysis options. Necessary considerations required to properly interpret each summary are identified in addition to the mathematical calculations behind each analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA300753

Entities

People

  • Alan B. Anderson
  • David L. Price
  • Patrick J. Guertin
  • William R. Whitworth

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Habitats
  • Medical Personnel
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Theoretical Analysis.