Mapping wetland change of prairie pothole region in bigstone county from 1938 year to 2011 year

Yan Wang, Joseph Knight, Lian P. Rampi, Rong Cao

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Abstract

Combining historical white and black aerial photo with more recent LiDAR and high resolution imagery, this research mapped wetland with high accuracy from 1930s to 2010s in object-based image analysis approach (OBIA). This research shows good potential in combining grey level information with OBIA method to map accurate historical wetland. We found that there were more small wetlands in 1938, but more large wetlands in 1978. In 2011, there were similar amount of small wetlands with 1938. Though 2011 had fewer large wetlands than 1978, 2011 year's individual large wetland had much larger area than those in 1978 and thus contributed to much larger total wetland area in 2011 than in 1978. We found significantly increasing precipitation and decreasing temperature over the time series, also drought in 1938, and this may explain wetland change well.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4343-4346
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479957750
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 4 2014
EventJoint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: Jul 13 2014Jul 18 2014

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Other

OtherJoint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period7/13/147/18/14

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.

Keywords

  • LiDAR
  • OBIA
  • Wetland mapping
  • historical aerial photo

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