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email: fnawb@uaf.edu
2001- GIS & Remote
Sensing for Toolik Field Station / Arctic LTER
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Institute of Arctic Biology
Alaska Geobotany Center
Arctic LTER
Geomorphic Trophic Hypothesis (GTH)
1998-2000 Bosnia-Hercegovina Forest Damage Assessment
A World Bank / University of Alaska Fairbanks Project
ABSTRACT
The war in Bosnia inflicted considerable damage upon the landscape in addition
to its immense human toll. Environmental consequences of warfare must
be taken into account in attempts to forge a sustainable peace in the region.
Ground-truthed satellite spectral images identified the locations of damaged
forests. Principal sources of forest damage during the war were incendiary
and fragmentation detonations during combat and localized removal of forest
cover from intensive fuel wood cutting. Post war threats to forest resources
are pest and disease infestation in damaged forest stands and unregulated harvesting
which permits high grading and erosion. Landscape level anthropogenic
disturbances could jeopardize refugee repatriation and political reconciliation
if forest degradation impedes effective economic reconstruction and development.
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Harry R. Bader is an associate professor of natural resources management
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research addresses the translation
of ecological data into meaningful management criteria for the regulation of
anthropogenic disturbances in natural ecosystems. Professor Bader is a
graduate of Harvard University Law School.
1998-9 Bathurst Vegetation / Land Cover Mapping Project - NWT, Canada
Ten land cover classes were mapped using Landsat TM, seven band imagery for the region southwest of Bathurst Inlet, NWT Canada in support of caribou habitat/ecological research conducted by Dr. Brad Griffith, UAF/US Fish & Wildlife Service. A maximum liklihood supervised classification technique was used with training data developed with class probability techniques from field reconnaissance and from previous mapping efforts by William Gould of the Institute for Advanced Field Education.
Deliverables included digital land cover data, full documentation/metadata, processed GPS data in GIS format from data provided by Dr. Griffith and hardcopy map output.
1997 City of Griffin, GA Zoning and Tax Parcel Mapping Project
Development of GIS database for City of Griffin to include tax
parcel and zoning layers. Data were developed from paper tax sheets and
parcel update records provided by the City of Griffin and Spalding County, GA.
Work was completed as a project of the McIntosh
Trail Regional Develoment Center. Similar work was also done for the
City of Milner, GA.
1994-6 Tanana Flats Remote Sensing Project
Research involving use of multi-temporal, ERS-1 SAR data both alone and in conjunction with LANDSAT TM data to classify and monitor boreal wetlands in interior Alaska, USA. Field work included travel in remote areas primarily by airboat to obtain a) GPS coordinates for ground truth, and b) vegetation data. Twenty SAR scenes and two LANDSAT scenes, all co-registered, comprised multi-temporal, multi-spectral data set. Analysis utilized ARC/INFO and ERMAPPER software on a UNIX workstation, Solaris operating system, relying primarily on standard Maximum Likelihood supervised classification techniques.
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