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Summary
Summary
First developed in the 1880s as a way to monitor glaciers in Europe, repeat photography --the practice of taking photographs at different points in times from the same physical vantage point--remains an essential and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study landscape change.
This volume explores the technical and geographic scope of this important technique, focusing particularly on the intertwined influences of climatic variation and land-use practices in sculpting landscapes. Contributors offer a broad-perspective review of the state-of-the-art of repeat photography, with twenty-three chapters written by researchers around the globe who have made use of repeat photography in their work. Topics addressed include
the history of repeat photography
techniques for creating and analyzing repeat photographs
applications in the geosciences
applications in population ecology
applications in ecosystem change
cultural applications
Repeat Photography demonstrates the wide range of potential applications, examines new techniques for acquiring data from repeat photography, and clearly shows that repeat photography remains a valuable and efficient means of monitoring change in both developed and developing regions. Over one hundred sets of photographs, including thirty-two pages of color photos, serve as examples.
Recent concerns about climate change and its effects on natural landscapes, combined with ongoing concerns about land-use practices, make this state-of-the-art review a timely contribution to the literature.
Author Notes
Dr. Robert H. Webb is a hydrologist and Diane E. Boyer is a photo archivist with the U.S. Geological Survey National Research Program in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr. Raymond M. Turner is a botanist, now retired from the USGS in Tucson. In 1959, Turner established the Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection, now managed by Webb and Boyer.
Table of Contents
ForewordGeorge E. Gruell |
Preface |
Part I Techniques |
Chapter 1 Introduction: A Brief History of Repeat PhotographyRobert H. Webb and Raymond M. Turner and Diane E. Boyer |
Chapter 2 Techniques of Matching and Archiving Repeat Photography Used in the Desert Laboratory CollectionDiane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb and Raymond M. Turner |
Chapter 3 Virtual Repeat PhotographyThomas C. Hanks and J. Luke Blair and Robert H. Webb |
Chapter 4 Three Methods of Presenting Repeat Photographs: Exploring Digital Media and the Context for the View, Connecting Two or More Photographs in a Continuous Space, and Extending the Information Contained by the Original ViewMark Klett |
Chapter 5 Using Fixed-Point Photography, Field Surveys, and GIS to Monitor Environmental Change in Riemvasmaak, South AfricaM. Timm Hoffman and Simon W. Todd |
Part II Applications in the Geosciences |
Chapter 6 Repeat Photography of Alaskan Glaciers and Landscapes from Ground-Based Photo Stations and Airborne PlatformsBruce F. Molnia |
Chapter 7 Documenting Disappearing Glaciers: Repeat Photography at Glacier National Park, Montana, USADaniel B. Fagre and Lisa A. McKeon |
Chapter 8 Historical Arroyo Formation: Documentation of Magnitude and Timing of Changes Using Repeat PhotographyRobert H. Webb and Richard Hereford |
Chapter 9 Clearcutting, Reforestation, and the Coming of the Interstate: Vermont's Photographic Record of Landscape Use and ResponsePaul Bierman |
Part III Applications in Population Ecology |
Chapter 10 Population Fluxes in the Sonoran Desert Shown by Repeat PhotographyStephen H. Bullock and Raymond M. Turner |
Chapter 11 Repeat Photography, Climate Change, and the Long-Term Population Dynamics of Tree Aloes in Southern AfricaM. Timm Hoffman and Richard F. Rohde and John Duncan and Prince Kaleme |
Part IV Applications in Ecosystem Change |
Chapter 12 Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Variability in Desert Grassland Vegetation of Southern Arizona, USAMitchel P. McClaran and Dawn M. Browning and Cho-ying Huang |
Chapter 13 Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in the Southern Andean Region of Chile and ArgentinaThomas T. Veblen |
Chapter 14 Repeat Photography Challenges Received Wisdom on Land Degradation in the Northern Ethiopian HighlandsJan Nyssen and Mitiku Haile and R. Neil Munro and Jean Poesen and A. T. Dick Grove and Jozef Deckers |
Chapter 15 Cattle, Repeat Photography, and Changing Vegetation of the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, AustraliaDarrell Lewis |
Chapter 16 People, Elephants, and Habitat Change in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: A Century of Change Detected by Repeat PhotographyDavid Western |
Chapter 17 Repeat Photography and Low-Elevation Fire Responses in the Southwestern United StatesRaymond M. Turner and Robert H. Webb and Todd C. Esque and Garry F. Rogers |
Part V Cultural Applications |
Chapter 18 Written on the Surface of the Soil: Northwest Highland Crofting Landscapes of Scotland during the Twentieth CenturyRichard F. Rohde |
Chapter 19 Photography and Rephotography in the Cairngorms, Scotland, UKPeter R. Moore |
Chapter 20 Learning Landscape Change in Honduras: Repeat Photography and DiscoveryJ.O. Joby Bass |
Chapter 21 Using Rephotography to Find Historic Trails and Campsites in the Southwestern United StatesTom Jonas |
Chapter 22 Shadows of Prehistory: Persistence and Change at Nordenskiöld's Mesa Verde Archaeological Sites, Southwestern Colorado, USAWilliam G. Howard and Douglas J. Hamilton and Kathleen L. Howard |
Chapter 23 The Future of Repeat PhotographyRobert H. Webb |
About the Editors |
Index |