Wetland Landscape Characterization GIS Remote Sensing and Image Analysis

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
The Wetland Issue......Page 12
EVALUATIONS FOR WETLAND LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT......Page 22
FIELD AND REGIONAL WETLAND MAPPING METHODS......Page 28
Wetlands Inventory and Identification......Page 29
Analysis of Regional Wetlands......Page 30
Local Area or Small Area Assessments......Page 31
Hydric Soils......Page 33
Presence of Wetland Plants......Page 34
Wetland Soil Types......Page 35
Wetland Hydrology......Page 36
Field Methods......Page 38
Surveying......Page 44
IDENTIFICATION AND MONITORING......Page 48
Monitoring......Page 49
Management......Page 51
How to Characterize Change in Features......Page 52
Features of Interest......Page 54
Information for Planning......Page 56
Indicators of Water......Page 57
General Condition of River and Stream Wetlands......Page 58
Identification of Habitat for Conservation......Page 60
Human-Related Features and Wetland Mitigation......Page 61
Hazardous Waste......Page 62
IMAGERY AND INTERPRETATIONS......Page 64
Remote Sensing......Page 65
Photointerpretation......Page 66
Interpretations......Page 69
Historical Aerial Photographs......Page 72
Characterization of Vegetation......Page 76
Water Resource Characterization......Page 77
Wetland Classification......Page 78
Creation of Aerial Photo Land Cover Products......Page 79
Detection of Change Using Satellite Data......Page 83
Preprocessing of Satellite Data......Page 87
The NALC Experience and Change Detection Procedures......Page 88
Steps in Change Detection and Data Processing......Page 89
Change Detection through Vegetation Index Differencing......Page 90
Change Detection through Principal Components Analysis......Page 91
Postcategorization Change Detection......Page 92
Categorization......Page 93
Land Cover and Classification System......Page 94
Applications to Wildlife Habitat Quality Evaluations......Page 96
GIS APPLICATIONS......Page 98
The Utility of GIS......Page 99
Data Sources and Their Application......Page 101
Wetland GIS Applications......Page 104
Aerial Photo Analyses of Historical Wetlands......Page 105
Use of Remote Sensor Data and GIS......Page 106
GIS Analyses of Large Lakes and Lacustrine Wetlands......Page 109
GIS for Water Quality Assessments......Page 110
Lake Water Resource Applications......Page 112
Related Water Resource Applications......Page 113
EVALUATIONS OF ACCURACY......Page 114
Assessments of Data Accuracy......Page 115
Data Analysis......Page 116
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 118
INDEX......Page 140