LTRMP SOP:  Aquatic areas database production


Owens, T., and J. J. Ruhser.  1996.  Long Term Resource Monitoring
Program standard operating procedures:  Aquatic areas database
production.  National Biological Service, Environmental Management
Technical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, March 1996.  LTRMP
95-P008-6.  4 pp. + Appendix.  (NTIS #PB96-172267)


ABSTRACT

This chapter describes specific procedures that are to be followed
by Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) staff when
creating aquatic areas coverages.  This procedure uses data
already created for the land cover/use coverage for the pool.  The
procedures are divided into several steps: (1) delineation of the
main channel, (2) digitizing the main channel and structures, (3)
dissolving the land cover data into aquatic and nonaquatic
classes, (4) on-screen digitizing and classification, (5)
completing the attribute tables photointerpretation, and (6)
placing the coverages in the database.  The aquatic areas
classification is appended.


KEYWORDS

Aquatic areas, aquatic habitat, river geomorphology, Upper
Mississippi River