Resource type
Thesis type
(Research Project) M.R.M.
Date created
2006
Authors/Contributors
Author: Buffett, Daniel Allan
Abstract
This project evaluates technical considerations and human resources required to remotely sense agricultural lands and demonstrates how the results can be used for waterfowl conservation. Using a hierarchical decision tree and 3 agricultural classification schemes on Landsat 7 ETM data, the accuracy was calculated for several image transformation techniques. For an 8 class agricultural scheme, the Tasseled Cap transform had a higher overall accuracy (75.1% ± 1.6) than the normalized difference vegetation index (60.6 ± 1.8), second modified soil adjusted vegetation index (60.6 ± 1.8), or arctangent to the simple ratio (59.4% ± 1.8), and had comparable accuracy to the dataset using 84 data layers (77.6% ± 1.5). The decision tree classifier replaced the requirement of raster based classification software and reduced the financial cost by 25%. A classified agricultural map was combined with a species – habitat model for American wigeon to set conservation goals for agricultural lands
Document
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author.
Scholarly level
Language
English
Member of collection
Download file | Size |
---|---|
etd2605.pdf | 9.21 MB |