Publications

Netmap-Specific Articles and Reports


Publications


Steep-slopes modeling for the Private Forest Accord (2023)

PFA Debris Flow Runout Analysis (2023)

 Building Virtual Watersheds: A Global Opportunity to Strengthen Resource Management and Conservation (2015)

Creation of a digital flowline network from IfSAR 5 m and LiDAR DEMs (Matanuska-Susitna Basin): A Resource for NHD updates in Alaska. Miller et al. 2015

Beyond Stream Layers: NetMap's Virtual Watersheds, 2014 American Fisheries Society

NetMap: A New Tool in Support of Watershed Science and Resource Management (2007)

Future of Applied Watershed Science at Regional Scales (2009)

Landscape Dynamics: Computer Simulations/Movies of Wildfires, Storms, Landslides, Debris Flows, Floods & Wood Recruitment

Aquatic Habitats

Fire and Fish: Potentially Beneficial Relationships. Flitcroft et al. 2015.

Multiscale Analysis of River Networks using the R Package linbin (using NetMap), Welty et al. 2015 Examples

Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative: Landscape Predictors of Coho Salmon: online data viewer

The Dynamic World of Aquatic Habitat Formation

Are You Using Habitat Intrinsic Potential Modeling, if so, You Should Update (2015)

New NetMap Stream Classification Tool (2015)

Intrinsic Potential Habitat Modeling for Chinook Salmon in the Copper River Watershed, Alaska (2014)

The interactive effects of climate change, riparian management and a nonnative predator on stream-rearing salmon (Lawrence et al. 2014)

Oldman River, Alberta Watershed Assessment (2013)

Erosion/Slope Stability/Sediment Supply/Sedimentation

Modeling Arroyo Erosion, San Franciso Bay Area using NetMap Tools

An overview of TerrainWorks Slope Stability Technology, including the Oso Slide in Washington

Advanced geospatial technology for resource planning and risk mitigation in China

An Introduction to NetMap: A New Technology of Management and Assessment for Forest Watershed Ecosystem (2013, Chinese)

Erosion, Sediment Sources, and Channel Analysis in the Crystal River, Colorado (2013)

Information and Links for the Oso (Hazel) Landslide, Washington

Roads

Unique Road Analysis: Getting Credit for What is Already Done and Optimizing Futures (short versionlong version)

Watershed Assessment, Focusing on Roads, Flathead River, MT (International Memorandum of Understanding) (2014)

Clearwater Basin Road Analysis (CFLRP) (2012)

Oldman River, Alberta Watershed Assessment (2013)

Watershed Restoration

Optimizing Restoration Planning, Nehalem Watershed, Coastal Oregon

Creating a Catchment Scale Perspective for Watershed Restoration (2011)

Wildfire

Post wildfire analysis (BAER): Identifying At-Risk Infrastructure and Critical Fisheries

Pre wildfire planning and real time fire fighting: Identifying At-Risk Infrastructure and Critical Fisheries

Wildfire may increase habitat quality for spring Chinook salmon in the Wenatchee River subbasin, WA USA (Flitcroft et al. 2015)

Decision Support System for Assessing Impacts of Fire Management on Threatened and Endangered Species (submitted)

Pre Wildfire Analysis, Upper Sacramento River Watershed (2011)

Post Fire Analysis, Methow Basin, Washington (online tool) (2011)

Wildfire Risk in Relation to Aquatic Habitats, Flathead River, Montana (2014)

Landscape Dynamics - Simulations/Movies

Climate Change

Assessing the Vulnerability of Watersheds to Climate Change (USFS, 2012)

Climate Change & the Tongass National Forest: Potential Impacts on Salmon Spawning Habitat (.pptx) (2014)

Climate Change Mapped to Streams, Flathead River Montana (2014)

Riparian Management

Benda, L., S. E. Litschert, G. Reeves and R. Pabst. 2015.  Thinning and In-Stream Wood Recruitment in Riparian Second Growth Forests in Coastal Oregon and the Use of Buffers and Tree Tipping as Mitigation. Journal of Forest Research (Springer).

Benda et al. 2015. Integrating Wet Areas Mapping with NetMap's Virtual Watershed to Support Spatially Explicit Riparian Zone Delineation and Management in Alberta. Contact us to view report.

Barguin, J. et al. 2015. Delineation and restoration of riparian zones, Spain.  Summary Paper.  Powerpoint

Fernandez et al. 2012. Quantifying the performance of automated GIS-based geomorphological approaches for riparian zone delineation using digital elevation models. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 16 (3851-3862) 

Ecosystem Services

Barquin et al. 2015. Coupling virtual watersheds with ecosystem services assessment: a 21st century platform to support river research and management. WIREs Water 2015. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1106

Papers using/citing NetMap

Atha, J. B. (2013). Fluvial wood presence and dynamics over a thirty year interval in forested watersheds. PhD, University of Oregon.

Barquin et al. 2015. Barquin et al. 2015. Coupling virtual watersheds with ecosystem services assessment: a 21st century platform to support river research and management. WIREs Water 2015. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1106

Barquín J., F. Martinez-Capel. 2011. Assessment of physical habitat characteristics in Rivers, implications for river ecology and management. Limnetica: 30(2): 159-168.

Benda et al. (2015, in press). Building virtual watersheds: a global opportunity to strengthen resource management and conservation. Environmental Management.

Bidlack, A., L. Benda, T. Miewald, G. Reeves and G. McMahan. (2014) Intrinsic Potential Habitat Modeling for Chinook Salmon in the Copper River Watershed, Alaska. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 143:3, 689-699.

Cai et al. 2014. Advanced geospatial technology for resource planning and risk mitigation in China

Litschert, Benda and Reeves. in prep. Forest management in second growth riparian protection areas: a model of instream wood recruitment for evaluating options.

Bruno, D., O. Belmar, et al. (2014). "Environmental determinants of woody and herbaceous riparian vegetation patterns in a semi-arid mediterranean basin." Hydrobiologia.

Cram, J. M., C. E. Torgersen, et al. (2012). "Tradeoffs between homing and habitat quality for spawning site selection by hatchery-origin Chinook salmon." Environmental Biology of Fishes.

Fernández, D., J. Barquín, et al. (2012). "Quantifying the performance of automated GIS-based geomorphological approaches for riparian zone delineation using digital elevation models." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences16: 3951-3862.

Fernández, D., J. Barquín, et al. (2012). "Delineating riparian zones for entire river networks using geomorphological criteria." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 9: 4045-4071.

Flitcroft et al. (2015) Wildfire may increase habitat quality for spring Chinook salmon in the Wenatchee River subbasin, WA, USA

Fraley, K.M., J.A. Falke, R. Yanusz and S. Ivey. 2016. Seasonal movements and habitat use of potamodromous rainbow trout across a complex Alaska riverscape. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

Hessburg, P. F., K. M. Reynolds, et al. (2013). "Landscape evaluation for restoration planning on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, USA." Sustainability 5: 805-840.

Lawrence et al. 2014. The interactive effects of climate change, riparian management, and a nonnative predator on stream-rearing salmon. Ecological Applications 24(4): 895-912.

Matter, A. N. 2016. A rapid assessment method to estimate the distribution of juvenile Chinook salmon in an interior Alaskan River basin. MS thesis. University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Miller et al. 2015. Creation of a digital flowline network from IfSAR 5 m and LiDAR DEMs (Matanuska-Susitna Basin): A Resource for NHD updates in Alaska.

Penas, F. J., F. Fernandez, M. Calvo, J. Barquin and L. Pedraz. (2011) Influence of data sources and processing methods on theoretical river network quality. Limnetica 30(2):197-216

Welty et al. 2015. Multiscale Analysis of River Networks using the R Package linbin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35(4): 802-809. See also linbin  See also examples

Ying, J., C. Tijui and J. Cunyoug. 2013. An Introduction to NetMap: A new technology of management and assessment of forest watershed ecosystem. Forest Engineering V.29 (2):44-48 (in Chinese).