Measuring changes in areal extent of historic wetlands at Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado 1936-1995
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Abstract
Great Sand Dunes National Monument (GRSA) is a unit of the National Park system in south central Colorado. With funding from the Colorado Historical Society, a series of studies were undertaken for an environmental history of the GRSA area and the San Luis Valley. Park managers were concerned over the disappearance of small wetlands in northwestern GRSA. The objective of this study is to document and analyze the changes to the wetlands through the study of digital, georeferenced images and to relate these changes to climatic and hydrologic factors. Ten sets of aerial photographs were obtained, ...
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