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Assessment Of Watersheds For Sustainable Agriculture In Karnataka, India, Nicholas Adam Charles
Assessment Of Watersheds For Sustainable Agriculture In Karnataka, India, Nicholas Adam Charles
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Modernization of traditional small-scale irrigation tanks in India is becoming increasingly popular. This is due to high costs of the alternative, of developing and constructing large-scale projects in rural areas. Examination of management strategies, resource allocation, and collective action has become paramount for promoting food security and livelihoods in water-stressed areas of Southeast Asia. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing techniques are valuable to assessing the management of these irrigation systems, specifically small water storage reservoirs that capture runoff from the monsoon known as irrigation tanks. The primary goal of this study is to develop a stakeholder-informed approach to …
Remote Sensing Supported Vegetation Detection In The Hole-In-The-Donut Restoration Areas Report, September 2014, Daniel Gann
Remote Sensing Supported Vegetation Detection In The Hole-In-The-Donut Restoration Areas Report, September 2014, Daniel Gann
GIS Center
No abstract provided.
Evaluating High-Resolution Aerial Photography Acquired By Unmanned Aerial Systems For Use In Mapping Everglades Wetland Plant Associations, Daniel Gann, Jennifer H. Richards
Evaluating High-Resolution Aerial Photography Acquired By Unmanned Aerial Systems For Use In Mapping Everglades Wetland Plant Associations, Daniel Gann, Jennifer H. Richards
GIS Center
Mapping of vegetation patterns over large extents using remote sensing methods requires field sample collections for two different purposes: (1) the establishment of plant association classification systems from samples of relative abundance estimates; and (2) training for supervised image classification and accuracy assessment of satellite data derived maps. One challenge for both procedures is the establishment of confidence in results and the analysis across multiple spatial scales. Continuous data sets that enable cross-scale studies are very time consuming and expensive to acquire and such extensive field sampling can be invasive. The use of high resolution aerial photography (hrAP) offers an …
Consulting Services To Determine The Effectiveness Of Vegetation Classification Using Worldview 2 Satellite Data For The Greater Everglades, Daniel Gann, Jennifer H. Richards, Himadri Biswas
Consulting Services To Determine The Effectiveness Of Vegetation Classification Using Worldview 2 Satellite Data For The Greater Everglades, Daniel Gann, Jennifer H. Richards, Himadri Biswas
GIS Center
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the use of remote sensing 1) to detect and map Everglades wetland plant communities at different scales; and 2) to compare map products delineated and resampled at various scales with the intent to quantify and describe the quantitative and qualitative differences between such products. We evaluated data provided by Digital Globe’s WorldView 2 (WV2) sensor with a spatial resolution of 2m and data from Landsat’s Thematic and Enhanced Thematic Mapper (TM and ETM+) sensors with a spatial resolution of 30m. We were also interested in the comparability and scalability of products derived …
Land Use And Climate Change Impacts On The Hydrology Of The Upper Mara River Basin, Kenya: Results Of A Modeling Study To Support Better Resource Management, Liya M. Mango, Assefa M. Melesse, Michael E. Mcclain, Daniel Gann, S. G. Setegen
Land Use And Climate Change Impacts On The Hydrology Of The Upper Mara River Basin, Kenya: Results Of A Modeling Study To Support Better Resource Management, Liya M. Mango, Assefa M. Melesse, Michael E. Mcclain, Daniel Gann, S. G. Setegen
GIS Center
Some of the most valued natural and cultural landscapes on Earth lie in river basins that are poorly gauged and have incomplete historical climate and runoff records. The Mara River Basin of East Africa is such a basin. It hosts the internationally renowned Mara-Serengeti landscape as well as a rich mixture of indigenous cultures. The Mara River is the sole source of surface water to the landscape during the dry season and periods of drought. During recent years, the flow of the Mara River has become increasingly erratic, especially in the upper reaches, and resource managers are hampered by a …
Rainfall Estimation Raster Conversion Data Preparation For Hydrological Modeling With Swat Mara Basin (Kenya / Tanzania), Daniel Gann
GIS Center
No abstract provided.