Download or read book Monitoring Land Cover Changes in California written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring Landcover Changes in California written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Operational Monitoring of Land cover Change Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data written by John Rogan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the Evolving Land Use Patterns on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Fringe Using Remote Sensing written by Darryl R. Goehring and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid, inexpensive methods of monitoring land use change can greatly facilitate the planning of urban fringe development by use of synoptic remotely sensed imagery and urban growth theory. The urbanization of Walnut Valley, California from 1953-71 prompted land use change from intensive von Thunen market-oriented patterns to extensive, disinvested, production-factor-minimized patterns. Aerial photography used synoptically recorded six periods of land use change that bracketed dates before and after the freeway was announced and built. Interpretations of these changes help to deal with rural-urban transition problems before they arise.

Download or read book Monitoring Wildland Vegetation in California on a 5 year Coordinated Schedule Using Remote Sensing GIS and Ground Based Sampling written by Ralph Warbington and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California s Dynamic Landscape Monitoring Ecological Response to Human Impact and Drought Using Satellite Imagery written by Katherine Sarah Willis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space-borne remote sensing is a rapidly evolving field and is exceptionally useful for monitoring landscape dynamics. The increasing impact of humans on natural ecosystems via land use change and climate change make ecological monitoring vital to environmental health. Human population levels are causing rapid changes in land cover and development, which in turn puts increasing stress on the natural landscape. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated climate change causing varied unexpected changes to vegetation. The effects of increased frequency and intensity of drought in the western United States is an example of this which can be monitored using satellite imagery. This dissertation assesses how these human-induced threats are driving landscape changes and the application of remote sensing to assess the ecological impacts. To address these objectives, remote sensing is applied to natural resource monitoring for effective conservation-based land management (Chapter 2). These methods are then applied to various research, including monitoring ecological status of southern California National Parks (Chapter 3), assessment of the effects of drought on southern California native plants (Chapter 4) and on browning over California vegetation zones (Chapter 5). The remote sensing-based analyses utilize several best practice methods such as supervised classification and time series statistics to examine landscape changes throughout California. Outputs include a standardized protocol to determine future ecological conservation management actions, status reports on current and historical land use, publically available spatial datasets, and assessment of the California landscape and native species in response to 20th Century drought conditions.

Download or read book Land Resources Monitoring Modeling and Mapping with Remote Sensing written by Ph.D., Prasad S. Thenkabail and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook series, Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing documents the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place during the last 50 years. The other two volumes in the series are Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies, and Remo

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Download or read book Extracting Land Cover Change Classes in the Cosumnes River Watershed from Landsat TM ETM Images Using Spectral Indices written by Nina Vasilievna Noujdina and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Farmland Conversion Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advisory Guidelines for the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Using Landsat TM Imagery to Monitor Vegetation Change Following Flow Restoration to the Lower Owens River California written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehabilitating river corridors to restore valuable riparian habitat consumes significant resources from both governments and private companies. Given these considerable expenditures, it is important to monitor the progress of such projects. This study evaluated the utility of using Landsat Thematic Mapper remotely-sensed data from 2002 and 2009 to monitor vegetation change induced by instream flow restoration to the Lower Owens River in central California. This study compared the results of an unsupervised classification with an NDVI threshold classification to appraise the resources required and effectiveness of each analysis method. The results were inspected by creating standard remote sensing accuracy error matrices and by correlating landscape pattern metrics with bird indicator species. Both sets of classified maps show a noticeable increase in riparian vegetation in the study area following flow restoration in 2006, indicating an improvement of the quality of bird habitat. The study concluded that analyzing vegetation change using the unsupervised classification technique required more effort, expert knowledge, and supplementary data than using the NDVI threshold method. If these prerequisites are met, the output from the unsupervised classification process produces a more precise map of land cover change than the NDVI threshold method. However, if an analyst is lacking either resources or ground verification data, the NDVI threshold technique is capable of providing a generalized, but still valid evaluation of vegetation change. This conclusion is supported by higher correlations between indicator bird species under the unsupervised classification method than were found with the NDVI threshold method.

Download or read book Assessment of Land Cover Change and Regeneration in a Northern California Forested Ecosystem Using Historical Landsat and GIS written by Charles Avrom Kiedman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Use and Land Cover Change written by Eric F. Lambin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.

Download or read book Issues in Environmental Law Policy and Planning 2012 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Environmental Planning. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Environmental Planning in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Download or read book Understanding Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern written by Michael A. Wulder and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote sensing and GIS are increasingly used as tools for monitoring and managing forests. Remotely sensed and GIS data are now the data sources of choice for capturing, documenting, and understanding forest disturbance and landscape pattern. Sitting astride the fields of ecology, forestry, and remote sensing/GIS, Understanding Forest Disturbanc

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