The Use of Drones for Recreational Impact Monitoring of Public Lands

IF 0.7 Q4 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Kristen Sikorsky, R. Sharp, Jessica Wilkes, Jessica P. Fefer, K. Nelson
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Abstract

As visitation to park and protected areas increases globally, public land managers seek to increase the implementation of simple and cost-effective methods to collect indicator and threshold data to address environmental and visitor experience concerns. Unmanned aerial vehicles, also referred to as drones, may be a logical addition to monitoring regimes. This study examined the outcome of using overhead drone imagery to monitor two management-selected indicators, visitor-created trails, and vegetation loss, in a newly established Kansas state park, Little Jerusalem Badlands. Images were analyzed by SamplePoint software in 10x10 meter grids with 100 sample points each. Within the first five months of the park opening, vegetation loss was observed in key areas of Little Jerusalem at rates varying from 2.7% to 42.3%. The formation of one visitor-created trail also occurred during this time. These results confirm the benefit of using drones for long term monitoring of environmental indicators that will aid land management agencies in decision-making to reduce recreational impacts associated with visitor use.
使用无人机监测公共土地的娱乐影响
随着全球对公园和保护区的访问量增加,公共土地管理者寻求更多地采用简单且具有成本效益的方法来收集指标和阈值数据,以解决环境和游客体验问题。无人机,也被称为无人机,可能是监测制度的合理补充。这项研究考察了在新建立的堪萨斯州立公园小耶路撒冷荒地使用头顶无人机图像监测两个管理层选择的指标的结果,即游客创建的小径和植被损失。通过SamplePoint软件在10x10米的网格中分析图像,每个网格有100个样本点。在公园开放的前五个月内,小耶路撒冷的主要地区出现了植被损失,损失率从2.7%到42.3%不等。在此期间,还形成了一条游客创建的小径。这些结果证实了使用无人机长期监测环境指标的好处,这将有助于土地管理机构做出决策,减少与游客使用相关的娱乐影响。
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Journal of Park and Recreation Administration
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
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