Roy, David: Michigan State University (Project Lead)
Project Funding:
2011 - 2014
NRA: 2009 NASA: Land Cover / Land Use Change
Funded by NASA
Abstract:
This research will first develop and validate an automated computational methodology to extract cropland and grassland field boundaries and derive field sizes from the WELD processed Landsat data, second generate CONUS field size data sets for three decadal periods: 1987, 1997 and 2007, third characterize the spatio-temporal distribution of field sizes for the CONUS, and fourth address explanatory hypotheses concerned with CONUS field size evolution.