Prototyping global industrial forest mapping, a Landsat spatio-temporal approach

Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, luigi@uidaho.edu (Presenter)
Lian-Zhi Huo, University of Idaho, lhuo@uidaho.edu
Alistair Matthew Stuart Smith, University of Idaho, alistair@uidaho.edu
Andrew Thomas Hudak, USDA Forest Service, ahudak@fs.fed.us
Robert Keefe, University of Idaho, robk@uidaho.edu

he objective of this proposal is to prototype a method to automatically map and monitor global industrial forests from Landsat imagery.

The prototype will be applied to wall-to-wall WELD data of the conterminous United States, and tested over planation forests in Malaysia and Brazil to assess the feasibility of global mapping using Landsat data. The development methodology integrates multitemporal analysis of forest cover change, Object-oriented analysis of shapes, textures, and spatial relationships of the areas of deforestation/afforestation and Validation using existing extensive field data.

Presentation Type:  Poster

Session:  Theme 4: Human influence on global ecosystems   (Mon 4:30 PM)

Associated Project(s): 

• Boschetti, Luigi: Prototyping global industrial forest mapping, a Landsat spatio-temporal approach ...details

Poster Location ID: 24