California's Dynamic Landscape: Monitoring Ecological Response to Human Impact and Drought Using Satellite Imagery
Willis KS. 2016. California's Dynamic Landscape: Monitoring Ecological Response to Human Impact and Drought Using Satellite Imagery. University of California
This dissertation assesses how these human-induced threats are driving landscape changes and the application of remote sensing to assess the ecological impacts. To address these objectives, remote sensing is applied to natural resource monitoring for effective conservation-based land management (Chapter 2). These methods are then applied to various research, including monitoring ecological status of southern California National Parks (Chapter 3), assessment of the effects of drought on southern Californianative plants (Chapter 4) and on browning over California vegetation zones (Chapter 5). The remote sensing-based analyses utilize several best practice methods such as supervised classification and time series statistics to examine landscape changes throughoutCalifornia. Outputs include a standardized protocol to determine future ecological conservation management actions, status reports on current and historical land use, publically available spatial datasets, and assessment of the California landscape and native species in response to 20th Century drought conditions.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Willis, Katherine
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California
- Units
- CHIS
- Keywords
- Climate change, Conservation, Dissertation, Drought, Health and environmental sciences, Land use, Remote sensing, Social sciences