NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program

NOAA’s Coastal Change Analysis Program

Ross WinansThe Baldwin Group at NOAA Office for Coastal Management

Nationally standardized data and methods

Inventory of intertidal areas, wetlands, and adjacent uplands

Five year update cycle

Location Availability

American Samoa 2004, 2010

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

1945 (Saipan and Rota), 2005

Guam 2005, 2011

Hawai‘i 1992*, 2001*, 2005, and 2010 to 2011

*Denotes moderate resolution product

Developed Impervious Surface Developed, Open SpaceAgricultural Cultivated Crops Pasture/HayBarren Land Bare LandRangeland Grassland Scrub / Shrub Forest Land Evergreen Forest

Coastal Land Cover Classes (Pacific Region)

Wetlands Palustrine Forested Wetland Palustrine Scrub/Shrub Wetland Estuarine Forested Wetland Estuarine Scrub/Shrub Wetland Palustrine Emergent Wetland Estuarine Emergent WetlandWater Open Water Palustrine Aquatic Bed Estuarine Aquatic BedUnconsolidated Shore Unconsolidated Shoreline

Why High Resolution?

Small geography of interest

Extraction of land cover components

Site specific analysis

Moderate Resolution (30m) High Resolution (2.4m)

High Spatial Resolution ≠ Easier = Detail

LandsatWorldview-2

Existing dataRoads, Building Footprints, Wetlands (NWI), Soils (SSURGO)

Elevation dataSlope, Curvature, Height above ground (nDSM)

Image SegmentationClassification of Image Objects

Coping with High Detail

Existing National Estuarine Research

Reserve Map

2012 Ortho Imagery 2012 C-CAP Map

2005 Land Cover 2005 to 2011 Change 2011 Land Cover

Coastal Change Analysis Program

Applications of High Resolution C-CAP

Vulnerability assessment

Assessing climate change impacts

Sediment erosion studies

Vulnerability Assessment

Wood, N., Church, A., Frazier, T., and B. Yarnal, 2007. “Variations in Community Exposure and Sensitivity to Tsunami Hazards in the State of Hawai‘i.” U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report 2007-5208, 38 p.

Vulnerability Assessment

"ASCMP Hazard Mitigation Portal." American Samoa GIS Portal. American Samoa Coastal Management Program, n.d. Web. 2015. <http://portal.gis.doc.as>.

Climate Change Impacts

Marcy, Douglas, William Brooks, Kyle Draganov, Brian Hadley, Chris Haynes, Nate Herold, John McCombs, Matt Pendleton, Sean Ryan, Keil Schmid, Mike Sutherland, and Kirk Waters. 2011. New Mapping Tool and Techniques for Visualizing Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts.

Climate Change Impacts

Greene, R. and R. Skeele (2014) Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the Island of Saipan. Prepared for CNMI Office of the Governor- Division of Coastal Resources Management Saipan: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 102p.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. 2014. An Analysis of Issues Affecting the Management of Coral Reefs and the Associated Capacity Building Needs in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Modeling Sediment Erosion

Modeling Sediment Erosion

Analysis by: Lily Tsukayama, University of California - Santa Barbara, in partnership with Conservation International Hawaii; data courtesy: NOAA CRED, NOAA OCM, University of Hawaii, USGS, USDA NRCS

Making the Data into Meaningful Information

Land Cover Atlas

Sea Level Rise Viewer

OpenNSPECT

Habitat Priority Planner

How to Use Land Cover as an Indicator of Water Quality

Landscape Fragmentation Tool

C-CAP Related Products Available on NOAA’s Digital Coast

Ross.Winans@noaa.gov

www.coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/ccaphighres

http://www.coast.noaa.gov/ccapatlas

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/r5/communityforests/?cid=fsbdev3_046690&width=full

Questions?