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Access To Child Care In North Carolina: The Interaction Of Gender Relations, Class, And Government Policy Across Places And Scales., Bonnie Morris Henderson Jan 1998

Access To Child Care In North Carolina: The Interaction Of Gender Relations, Class, And Government Policy Across Places And Scales., Bonnie Morris Henderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Access to child care is becoming an increasingly critical economic and social issue for American families as more and more women work outside the home. In addition to being an important economic and social issue, access to child care is also a significant geographical issue, in two senses. First, place is an important component of child care access; substantial spatial variations exist in child care services in the United States. Secondly, attention to issues of scale is important when examining child care issues since access to child care is shaped by both local and non-local forces. I use both horizontal …

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A Rhetoric Of Religious Order: The Case Of The Promise Keepers., Michael Ellsworth Eidenmuller Jan 1998

A Rhetoric Of Religious Order: The Case Of The Promise Keepers., Michael Ellsworth Eidenmuller

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study employs a Burkeian critical perspective to explain the growth and impact of the evangelical movement-organization known as Promise Keepers. Specific attention is given to the strategies of identification by which Promise Keepers manages the exigencies of identity, recruitment, and opposition. In addition, this study introduces the concept of the scriptural implant, a strategy of identification by which Promise Keepers attempts to secure the truth and authority of its discourse. Data for this study were selected from a range of sources, including published literature, audio and video tapes, and Internet materials produced by Promise Keepers. Interviews with Promise Keepers' …

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Indigenous Rights Movements, Land Conflicts, And Cultural Politics In Taiwan: A Case Study Of Li-Shan., Yi-Fong Chen Jan 1998

Indigenous Rights Movements, Land Conflicts, And Cultural Politics In Taiwan: A Case Study Of Li-Shan., Yi-Fong Chen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Land rights claims remain the major focus of world indigenous movements. Lands relate to the formation of indigenous identity, religious practices, and the material base for indigenous cultural survival. From a spatial/geographical perspective, this dissertation explores the influences of Taiwan's state policies on indigenous peoples, their cultures, identities, and human-land relationship. The Li-shan area, in central Taiwan, is the focus of the research due to the fact that the most severe land disputes are in this area, as well as longest history of economic interactions among indigenous peoples, the dominant Han people, and the State, in the postwar Taiwan. The …

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Human Dimensions Of Water Resources Policy: The United States Army Corps Of Engineers' Role In Natural Resources And Recreational Management., Herman Roger Hamilton Jan 1998

Human Dimensions Of Water Resources Policy: The United States Army Corps Of Engineers' Role In Natural Resources And Recreational Management., Herman Roger Hamilton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines policies that affect natural resources and outdoor recreation management by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) at its reservior projects located throughout the United States. The Corps is responsible for a large civil water-resources development and management program in addition to its military responsibilities. The agency has undergone many policy changes which have affected the development of the nation's water resources and the public uses that are made of those developments. Recreation and fish-and-wildlife are by-products of reservoirs which were developed for navigation, flood control, and other conventional purposes. The Corps is the largest supplier of …

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Meandering Processes And Channel Morphology In The Lower Mississippi River Prior To Major Human Disturbance., Paul Franklin Hudson Jan 1998

Meandering Processes And Channel Morphology In The Lower Mississippi River Prior To Major Human Disturbance., Paul Franklin Hudson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although the Lower Mississippi River has been intensively studied, few studies have investigated meandering processes in the river when the channel was considered to be relatively free of major human disturbance. This research is significant in that it provides a detailed examination of meandering processes and channel adjustment in a large fine-grained alluvial setting, offering a departure from the base of knowledge on this topic that has evolved from studies on smaller coarse-grained river systems. The study spans the entire length of the Lower Mississippi River (1,704 km), from Cairo, IL to Head of Passes, LA. Two sets of hydrographic …

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Wavelet-Based Registration Of Medical Images., Raj Sharman Jan 1998

Wavelet-Based Registration Of Medical Images., Raj Sharman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Registration is the process of spatially aligning two objects and is normally a preprocessing step in most object recognition algorithms. Registration of images and recognition of signatures of objects in images is important for clinical and diagnostic purposes in medicine. Recognizing structure, potential targets for defense purposes and changes in the terrain, from aerial surveillance images and SAR images is the focus of extensive research and development today. Automatic Target Recognition is becoming increasingly important as the defense systems and armament technology move to use smarter munitions. Registration of images is a preprocessing step in any kind of machine vision …

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Winter Season Cold Front Variability In The Southern United States., Jeffrey W. Hardy Jan 1998

Winter Season Cold Front Variability In The Southern United States., Jeffrey W. Hardy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The variability of southern United States cold fronts was examined for 29 winter seasons, with particular emphasis placed on the identification of the upper-air circulation patterns associated with months when the region experienced extremes in cold front frequencies and intensities. The influence of atmospheric teleconnection patterns on cold front variability was first examined. For the Pacific/North American (PNA) teleconnection pattern, cold front passage frequencies in Florida were found to be significantly higher (lower) during meridional (zonal) months. An examination of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) revealed that cold front passage frequencies were significantly higher (lower) in western and eastern Texas …

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Arthur Miller In Montreal: Cultural Transfer Of American Plays In Quebec (1965-1997)., Bernard Lavoie Jan 1998

Arthur Miller In Montreal: Cultural Transfer Of American Plays In Quebec (1965-1997)., Bernard Lavoie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In the 1960s, American plays presented in Montreal were translated in France; the following decade saw the first of American plays translated or adapted in Quebec. In the 1980s, the translative practices employed in the seventies proved the dominant mode. In the 1990s, only exceptionally has an American play been presented in a translation originating outside of Quebec. It is now the rule that all foreign plays produced in Quebec are translated in the Quebecois idiom. This translative situation has stabilized, and the translation of American plays into Quebecois reflects an established practice. The tracing and analysis of this translative …

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Urban Effects On Precipitation In The Southern United States Of America., Youngeun Choi Jan 1998

Urban Effects On Precipitation In The Southern United States Of America., Youngeun Choi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Of the many weather conditions influenced by urban areas, precipitation is one of the most controversial and unsolved elements in characterizing the urban climate. The purpose of this dissertation was to identify anomalies in precipitation totals and frequencies due to urban effects and to evaluate whether certain meteorological conditions or seasons have more apparent effects. The five largest cities in the south-central United States were selected: Houston; Dallas; San Antonio; New Orleans; and Memphis. It was assumed that simple spatial analysis can detect urban effects on precipitation over and downwind of the city with a localized maximum. Trend surface analysis …

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An Historical Analysis Of Elementary-Level Art Education Supported By The Puerto Rican Department Of Public Instruction From 1898-1990., Camille Galanes Jan 1998

An Historical Analysis Of Elementary-Level Art Education Supported By The Puerto Rican Department Of Public Instruction From 1898-1990., Camille Galanes

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Visual Arts Education Division of the Puerto Rican Department of Education is currently developing a plan for educational reform. One intent of this plan is to secure art programs within the core of curriculum reform. In my dissertation I establish the imperative need of historical research as the first step in so securing art programs. Without historical research, educational reforms could result in an idealization of purposes with uncritical adherence to tradition. Art education requires an analysis of its development on the island rather than a mere listing of the most prominent events. My study, the first of its …

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The Rise Of The Republican Party In The South: A Geographical Interpretation, 1948-1996., John Joseph Heppen Jan 1998

The Rise Of The Republican Party In The South: A Geographical Interpretation, 1948-1996., John Joseph Heppen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines the rise of the Republican Party in the South from 1948 to 1996. The South includes all the states of the Confederacy minus Virginia. This dissertation subdivides the South into nine geopolitical regions at the county/parish level and then examines the regional contributions to the rise of the Republican Party. The nine geopolitical regions are The Deep South, The Piedmont Up-Country, The Mountain South, The Ozarks, South Florida, French Louisiana, East Texas, West Texas, and Mexican Texas. The dissertation first tests for spatial autocorrelation in the South and the nine geopolitical regions. The South has two eras …

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Tobacco Farming In The Age Of The Surgeon General's Warning: The Cultural Ecology And Structuration Of Burley Tobacco Production In Madison County, North Carolina., Catherine Marie Algeo Jan 1998

Tobacco Farming In The Age Of The Surgeon General's Warning: The Cultural Ecology And Structuration Of Burley Tobacco Production In Madison County, North Carolina., Catherine Marie Algeo

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study analyzes the transformation of burley tobacco farming underway in the late twentieth century in light of social, political, and economic forces that make tobacco a contested crop. It focuses on one county in southern Appalachia, Madison County, North Carolina, where tobacco has been a cash crop for over a hundred years. A synthesis of the theoretical and methodological approaches of cultural ecology and structuration is proposed as a means of exploring the components of agricultural change within Appalachia at a continuum of scales from the local to the national, while contextualizing farming within its environmental and social settings. …

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Of Rectangles And Centuries. A History Of The Use Of A Garden Pattern From Romanesque Europe To Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, David Dwayne Lewis Dec 1997

Of Rectangles And Centuries. A History Of The Use Of A Garden Pattern From Romanesque Europe To Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, David Dwayne Lewis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Settlers of New Orleans brought with them ideas of gardens that influenced the way they shaped gardens in the colony. Although the influence of those ideas has been acknowledged in studies of New Orleans gardens, specific connections between the ideas and gardens in New Orleans have not been made. To illuminate some of those connections, this study focuses on one garden pattern — a composition of long, rectangular planting beds -- that is common to at least fifty gardens in New Orleans and to European gardens dating from the ninth century. A developmental history that chronicles the use of the …

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Ka'o'Ob: The Metates Of Chichen Itza Within The Context Of The Greater Maya Realm, Bryan Luter Anderson Oct 1997

Ka'o'Ob: The Metates Of Chichen Itza Within The Context Of The Greater Maya Realm, Bryan Luter Anderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Metates- maize grinding stones- from the Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic Maya site of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico are analyzed with respect to both intra-site dynamics and in relation to the greater Maya realm. Two hundred and seven metates or portions of metates were recorded in survey and mapping activities and from site storage. These metates are examined with a focus on size, material, form, and distribution. Results of the research are used to show how the inhabitants of Chichen Itza adapted to a native environment ill-suited for metate manufacture, and how this adaptation led to a metate industry significantly different from …

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Technical Change And New Directions For Cotton Production (Bulletin #861), Richard F. Kazmierczak Jr., Kenneth W. Paxton Jun 1997

Technical Change And New Directions For Cotton Production (Bulletin #861), Richard F. Kazmierczak Jr., Kenneth W. Paxton

LSU AgCenter Bulletins

This report summarizes a year-long study of the current and future role of technology in the Mid-South, Southeast and High Plains cotton production systems. In short, this report documents the combined vision of cotton production scientists and extension personnel with respect to the future of U.S. and regional cotton production.

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Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare Jan 1997

Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare

Faculty Publications

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Analysis Of Maize (Zea Mays Subsp. Mays) Pollen: Normalizing The Effects Of Microscope?Slide Mounting Media On Diameter Determinations, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1997

Analysis Of Maize (Zea Mays Subsp. Mays) Pollen: Normalizing The Effects Of Microscope?Slide Mounting Media On Diameter Determinations, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) dominates the record of prehistoric agriculture in the Neotropics. Nonetheless, many significant questions of Zea systematics and evolution persist. Palynology provides a record central to addressing those questions, but determining pollen grain diameter remains a significant method- ological issue: diameter is a key characteristic in identification, and diameter seems to be space-time dependent - the latter phenomenon but little understood. One issue in analyzing diam- eter is the confounding effect of microscope-slide mounting media. This study provides correction factors to normalize diam- eter among silicon oil, glycerine jelly, and acrylic resin (du Pont Elvacite), the …

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On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1997

On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Landscape Change And Livestock In Sixteenth-Century New Spain: The Archival Data Base, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1997

Landscape Change And Livestock In Sixteenth-Century New Spain: The Archival Data Base, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

Despite the wealth of Mexican archival data pertinent to understanding the ecological interaction between livestock and landscape during the sixteenth century in New Spain, some fundamental methodological issues persist in the use of the mercedes, or land grants. The degree of completeness of the extant mercedes record and the de facto areal extents of the cattle and sheep estancias both remain uncertain. A cartographic method applied to mercedes for the central Veracruz lowlands addresses those issues and suggests a general method for rigorous analysis of the data base. That method demonstrates that the extant mercedes provide a nearly complete record …

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Regional, Holocene Records Of The Human Dimension Of Global Change: Sea-Level And Land-Use Change In Prehistoric Mexico, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1997

Regional, Holocene Records Of The Human Dimension Of Global Change: Sea-Level And Land-Use Change In Prehistoric Mexico, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

Regional, Holocene records hold particular relevance for understanding the reciprocal nature of global environmental change and one of its major human dimensions: "sustainable agriculture", i.e., food production strategies which entail fewer causes of and are less susceptible to environmental change. In an epoch of accelerating anthropogenic transformation, those records reveal the protracted regional causes and consequences of change (often agricultural) in the global system as well as informing models of prehistoric, intensive agriculture which, because of long tenures and high productivities, suggest strategies for sustainable agricultural in the present. This study employs physiographic analysis and the palynological, geochemical record from …

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Modeling Human Evolution - To Tree Or Not To Tree?, Stephen T. Sherry, Mark A. Batzer Jan 1997

Modeling Human Evolution - To Tree Or Not To Tree?, Stephen T. Sherry, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

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Alu Insertion Polymorphisms And Human Evolution: Evidence For A Larger Population Size In Africa, Mark Stoneking, Jennifer J. Fontius, Stephanie L. Clifford, Himla Soodyall, Santosh S. Arcot, Nilmani Saha, Trefor Jenkins, Mohammad A. Tahir, Prescott L. Deininger, Mark A. Batzer Jan 1997

Alu Insertion Polymorphisms And Human Evolution: Evidence For A Larger Population Size In Africa, Mark Stoneking, Jennifer J. Fontius, Stephanie L. Clifford, Himla Soodyall, Santosh S. Arcot, Nilmani Saha, Trefor Jenkins, Mohammad A. Tahir, Prescott L. Deininger, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

Alu insertion polymorphisms (polymorphisms consisting of the presence/absence of an Alu element at a particular chromosomal location) offer several advantages over other nuclear DNA polymorphisms for human evolution studies. First, they are typed by rapid, simple, PCR-based assays; second, they are stable polymorphisms-newly inserted Alu elements rarely undergo deletion; third, the presence of an Alu element represents identity by descent-the probability that different Alu elements would independently insert into the exact same chromosomal location is negligible; and fourth, the ancestral state is known with certainty to be the absence of an Alu element. We report here a study of 8 …

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Lsu General Catalog 1997-1998, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1997

Lsu General Catalog 1997-1998, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Variability Of A Vestigial Structure: First Metacarpal In Colobus Guereza And Ateles Geoffroyi, Robert G. Tague Jan 1997

Variability Of A Vestigial Structure: First Metacarpal In Colobus Guereza And Ateles Geoffroyi, Robert G. Tague

Faculty Publications

A tenet of evolutionary theory is that, under conditions of stabilizing selection, phenotypic variability is inversely related to selection intensity. Correspondingly, a nonfunctional, vestigial structure is expected to be highly variable relative to its functional homologue. This study tests the hypothesis that species with a vestigial pollex, Colobus guereza and Ateles geoffroyi, have a first metacarpal whose length is both highly variable relative to, and poorly correlated with, the lengths of the other metapodials. The results are consistent with the hypothesis, though this combination of traits is also found in Presbytis rubicunda and Presbytis cristata. The latter two species have …

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God Keep Me From Ever Completing Anything: Problems Of Writing And Identity In Four American Narratives., Ralph Russell Pottle Jan 1997

God Keep Me From Ever Completing Anything: Problems Of Writing And Identity In Four American Narratives., Ralph Russell Pottle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the relationship between writing and American identity in four works--William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Herman Melville's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni--by illuminating the difficulty that the narrator of each work has in constructing and maintaining his vision of American identity. For Bradford and Franklin, the analysis centers on their attempts to confront the historical complexities of American society--Bradford confronting the economic realities of colonialism, Franklin confronting the difficulty of organizing governance after the American Revolution. For Melville and Hawthorne, the analysis …

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A Computer Automated, Hydraulically Integrated Serial Turbidostat Algal Reactor (Histar): Mathematical Modeling And Experimental Analysis., Chandra Sekhar Theegala Jan 1997

A Computer Automated, Hydraulically Integrated Serial Turbidostat Algal Reactor (Histar): Mathematical Modeling And Experimental Analysis., Chandra Sekhar Theegala

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Conceptually, the Hydraulically Integrated Serial Turbidostat Algal Reactor (HISTAR) has two components: (1) sealed turbidostats for producing a high quality algal inoculum, and (2) a series of unprotected inter-connected continuous flow stirred tank reactors (CFSTRs) for mass producing algae under approximated plug flow conditions. The hydraulic retention time of each individual CFSTR ($\theta\sb{\rm n})$ is set low enough (dilution is set high) that any suspended organisms (both contaminants and desired algae) entering the CFSTR would be washed to the next CFSTR well within their doubling time. However, as the turbidostats are employed to inoculate the first CFSTR on an almost …

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Coastal Restoration Using Pipeline-Conveyed Sediments., Catherine Faith Voisin Jan 1997

Coastal Restoration Using Pipeline-Conveyed Sediments., Catherine Faith Voisin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A spreadsheet program was successfully developed which determines the engineering requirements for pipeline transport of sediments from dredge sites to wetland restorations sites. The program called SLURRY.XLS involves several new correlations. A new correlation for determining the critical velocity of particle transport is presented. New correlations were statistically developed for determining the drag coefficient of particles. The spreadsheet also successfully determines settling velocities of the individual particle sizes in any settling regime. A second spreadsheet program entitled "CONSOL.XLS" uses geotechnical principles of consolidation for determining marsh surface elevation with and without hydraulic fill versus time. The CONSOL.XLS program permits the …

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Sediment Transport Processes In Coarse Gravel-Bed Rivers: An Example From Costa Rica., Karolien Johanna Zita Debusschere Jan 1997

Sediment Transport Processes In Coarse Gravel-Bed Rivers: An Example From Costa Rica., Karolien Johanna Zita Debusschere

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was aimed at gaining a better understanding of the sedimentological and morphological characteristics of boulder-dominated, coarse gravel-bed rivers associated with alluvial fans in humid tropical climates and the transport processes of boulder-size clasts within these systems. The study focused on the Rio Toro Amarillo, a braided, coarse gravel-bed river in Costa Rica which drains an active volcano within the Atlantic Watershed of Costa Rica. The investigation involved mapping and measurement of the distribution of braid complexes and channels; gradient, grain-size distribution, lithofacies, and micromorphology of the channel-beds and bar surfaces; elevational differences between channel bed and bar surface; …

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The Link Between Economic Restructuring, Economic Deprivation, And Serious Crime In American Cities, 1970-1990., Graham Christopher Ousey Jan 1997

The Link Between Economic Restructuring, Economic Deprivation, And Serious Crime In American Cities, 1970-1990., Graham Christopher Ousey

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation postulates that the economic transition from manufacturing to service employment is a major factor leading to high rates of economic deprivation and crime in major U.S. cities. By integrating theory and research from several substantive areas of sociology, I extend macro-level research in criminology and develop a social organization/social control explanation of city crime rates. I use both cross-sectional and longitudinal regression methods to investigate the direct and indirect effects of a city's industrial structure on race-disaggregated rates of homicide, robbery, and burglary. Based upon data from 113 major cities in the United States, I compute a series …

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Land/Water Interface Delineation Using Neural Networks., Rajabhushanam Cherukuri Jan 1997

Land/Water Interface Delineation Using Neural Networks., Rajabhushanam Cherukuri

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The rapid decline in acreage of land areas in wetlands caused by frequent inundations and flooding has brought about an increased awareness and emphasis on the identification and inventory of land and water areas. This dissertation evaluates three classification methods--Normalized Difference Vegetation Index technique, Artificial Neural Networks, and Maximum-Likelihood classifier for the delineation of land/water interface conditions using Landsat-TM imagery. The effects of three scaling algorithms, including resampling by aggregation, Gaussian smoothing, and local variance analysis, on the classification accuracy are analyzed to determine how the delineation, quantification and analysis of land/water boundaries relate to problems of mixed pixels, scale …

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