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Monitoring Design Information
Welcome! The Monitoring Design information is organized into sections to facilitate navigating the web site and finding the desired information.
A Survey Design Process Overview provides general descriptive information:
- series of process steps for survey design development
- an illustrative example - EMAP Western Pilot
- Schematic illustrations:
- Simple site selection example for lakes
- Site selection for a linear resource, based on Ohio River (pdf, 37KB)
- Site selection when cell contains 2 or more units
- Stream Networks and site selection
- Site selection for Continuous Area Resources - Estuaries
A Specific Design Information Section provides detailed information:
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Technical Design Information is provided to support the implementation tasks
- Site Selection
- Frame Materials
- Sampling Frame
- Implementing GRTS Design Strategy
- Unequal Probability Implementation
- Illustrative examples for streams, estuaries, lakes, ecoregion areas using psurvey.design
- psurvey.design software package
Spatial Grid Information provides the background and basis for the Discrete Grids, including randomization and intensification routines.