Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune LiDAR Vegetation Height

Critical military training and testing on lands along the nation’s coastal and estuarine shorelines are increasingly placed at risk because of encroachment pressures in surrounding areas, impairments due to other anthropogenic disturbances, and changes in climate and sea level. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) intends to enhance and sustain its training and testing assets and also optimize its stewardship of natural resources through the development and application of an ecosystem-based management approach on DoD installations. To accomplish this goal, particularly for installations in estuarine/coastal environments, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) launched the Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program (DCERP) as a 10-year effort at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (MCBCL) in North Carolina. The results of the second 5 years of the program (DCERP2) are presented in the DCERP2 Final Report. There were four overarching objectives of DCERP2. The first objective was to understand the effects of climate change impacts, including warming temperatures, variability in the hydrological cycle, storm events, and sea level rise on the coastal ecosystems at MCBCL from observations and measurements made over the 10-year program. The second objective was to understand the carbon cycle of the coastal and terrestrial ecosystems at MCBCL through a highly integrated sampling program. The third objective was to develop models, tools, and indicators to evaluate current and projected future ecosystem state changes and translate scientific findings into actionable information for installation managers. The last objective was to recommend adaptive management strategies to sustain ecosystem natural resources within the context of an active military installation. GIS layers of 2013 NC Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) processed to provide vegetation height within MCBCL boundaries.

美国沿海与河口海岸沿线的关键性军事训练及测试活动，正日益受到多重因素的威胁：周边区域的侵占压力、其他人为扰动导致的生态系统功能受损，以及气候与海平面变化。美国国防部（U.S. Department of Defense, DoD）计划通过在其军事设施中开发并应用基于生态系统的管理方法，强化并维系其训练与测试资产，同时优化对自然资源的管护工作。为达成这一目标，尤其是针对河口/沿海环境中的军事设施，战略环境研究与发展计划（Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, SERDP）在北卡罗来纳州勒热纳海军陆战队基地（Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, MCBCL）启动了一项为期十年的国防沿海/河口研究计划（Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program, DCERP）。该计划第二个五年阶段（DCERP2）的研究成果已收录于《DCERP2最终报告》。DCERP2共设定四项核心目标：第一项核心目标为，通过十年计划期间开展的观测与测量工作，厘清气候变化影响——包括气温升高、水文循环变异、风暴事件以及海平面上升——对勒热纳海军陆战队基地沿海生态系统的作用机制；第二项核心目标为，通过高度整合的采样计划，解析勒热纳海军陆战队基地沿海与陆地生态系统的碳循环过程；第三项核心目标为，开发用于评估当前及预测未来生态系统状态变化的模型、工具与指标体系，并将科研成果转化为可供军事设施管理人员使用的可操作信息；第四项核心目标为，针对现役军事设施的运营场景，提出可持续管护生态系统自然资源的适应性管理策略。已针对2013年北卡罗来纳州激光雷达（Light Detection and Ranging, LiDAR）数据完成地理信息系统（GIS）图层处理，以获取勒热纳海军陆战队基地范围内的植被高度信息。