Date of Award

7-20-2011

Document Type

Masters Capstone Project

Degree Name

M.S. in Geographic Information Science

Organizational Unit

College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Geography and the Environment

First Advisor

Paul Sutton

Second Advisor

Steven R. Hick

Keywords

Spatial assessment of vegetation change, Landsat TM/ETM imagery

Abstract

A spatial assessment of vegetation change along the areas of shrinking lakes was conducted in 2011. The analysis utilized Landsat TM/ETM imagery bands 3 and 4 to calculate NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) from 1984 to 2009 and applied cell and zonal statistics to measure the change as well as create an animation of the change. Also, three 30 meter bands and the zonal averages for the maximum values were assessed. The band in the 60-90 buffer bands has the greatest ratio amount of the maximum vegetation values when compared to the 0-30 meter and the 30-60 meter buffered bands. Additionally, there appears to be slight trends towards higher maximum vegetation values when it in dryer, cooler and later season.

Copyright Date

7-20-2011

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

All Rights Reserved
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Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Steve Ewest

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

58 pgs

File Size

766 KB



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