Wednesday
Jun292005
Decadal changes in a Pacific estuary

Byrd, K. B., M. Kelly, and E. Van Dyke. 2004. Decadal changes in a Pacific estuary: a multi-source remote sensing approach for historical ecology. GIScience and Remote Sensing 41(4): 347-370
Change in vegetation composition on sediment fansWe used historic aerial photographs with manual and automated image classification techniques to discern decadal-scale changes to salt marshes in Elkhorn Slough, California caused by off-farm sedimentation from 1971 to 2001. Change detection identified a process of plant succession that led to arroyo willow encroachment into pickleweed marsh.
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gis,
historic,
remote sensing,
watershed,
wetlands




