RAPID: Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory - The Critical Zone in the Susquehanna River Basin: The Shale Experiment

为临界区观测站（CZO）获取机载LiDAR（光探测和测距）数据将大大推进CZO内部和整个CZO的研究。统一采集和处理的激光雷达数据将刺激交叉#8208;CZO活动和合成周围的地形和冠层信息获得。作为国家CZO计划的跨站点活动，已要求UC默塞德CZO提供LiDAR补充。在年度国家CZO会议上，明确指出标准化数据和地面实况协议需要伴随补充，以确保LiDAR数据获得足够的支持，以激励使用LiDAR产品的研究。确定每个当地CZO团队将按照制定的协议为其站点进行植被地面实况。然后，每个CZO进行所需的现场测量，并将数据提供给UC默塞德的PI。RAPID提案的必要性在于，植被地面实况必须在2010年夏季LIDAR调查之前完成。该RAPID请求包括两名本科生为期三个月（全职）的费用、植被地面实况所需的现场设备以及植被所需地理参考精度的调查员时间。一名研究生（博士水平）目前被雇用，并将由萨斯奎汉纳/页岩山CZO免费提供的要求。

Acquiring airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data for the Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) will significantly advance research, both within and across the CZOs. Uniformly acquired and processed LiDAR data would stimulate cross‐CZO activities and synthesis surrounding the terrain and canopy information obtained. As a cross-site activity for the National CZO program a LiDAR supplement from the UC Merced CZO has been requested. At the Annual National CZO Meeting, it was made clear that standardized data and ground truth protocols would need to accompany the supplement to ensure that the LiDAR data receive sufficient support to galvanize the research that will use the LiDAR products. It was determined that each local CZO team will do the vegetation ground truth for their site, following protocols developed. Each CZO, then, takes the needed field measurements and provides the data to the PI at UC Merced. The need for a RAPID proposal is that the vegetation ground truth has to be completed before the LIDAR survey in summer 2010.This RAPID request includes the cost of two undergraduate students for three months (full time), necessary field equipment for the vegetation ground truth, and surveyor time for necessary georeference accuracy of vegetation. One graduate student (PhD level) is currently employed and will be provided by theSusquehanna/Shale Hills CZO at no charge to the request.