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Title:   Author  item
                                            Lang, Meganitem
                                            Anderson, Marthaitem
                                            McCarty, Gregory
  Submitted to: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
                                    Publication Type: Proceedings
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 1/20/2008
                                    Publication  Date: 3/15/2008
                                    Citation: Lang, M.W., Anderson, M.C., McCarty, G.W. 2008. Monitoring wetland hydrology at a watershed scale: Dynamic information for adaptive management. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 63:49A.Interpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Wetlands provide many beneficial services, including water quality improvement and floodwater reduction. These services are performed through the interaction of multiple landscape components (e.g., agricultural fields, forests, urban areas, and wetlands) and therefore should be considered at the watershed scale. Hydrology (i.e., flooding and soil moisture) controls wetland function, and must be better understood to conserve remaining wetlands, monitor wetland function, and improve water quality management. Broad-scale forested wetland hydrology is difficult to monitor using ground-based and traditional remote sensing methods (i.e., aerial photography). C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data can improve the capability to monitor forested wetland hydrology. The information derived from SAR can be easily updated through time to better inform adaptive, watershed scale management through the use of this information in water quality models and other decision support systems. However, the full potential of these data needs further investigation. Research is being conducted to support the use of SAR for monitoring forested wetland hydrology at a watershed scale. Forest hydrology has been mapped for the Choptank River Watershed, Maryland and a hydroperiod time series has been developed to better represent the dynamic nature of this ecosystem variable. Maps of forested wetland hydrology were compared with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wetlands Inventory, the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Soil Survey Geographic Database, and in situ data. Results are encouraging and opportunities are being explored to include this metric, as well as other biophysical parameters, in spatially explicit water quality models and other decision support systems.


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