{"id":1532,"date":"2022-02-20T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T08:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.earthdesign.com\/earthdesign\/?page_id=1532"},"modified":"2022-02-21T03:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:28:29","slug":"mapping-emergent-and-riparian-vegetations-response-to-changing-lake-levels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/?page_id=1532","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Emergent and Riparian Vegetation\u2019s Response to Changing Lake Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Executive Summary<\/h4>\n

EDC, Inc. scientists partnered with Dr. Shon Schooler (University of Wisconsin- Superior) to map vegetation at the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve\u2019s Sentinel Site on the Pokegama River. Dr. Schooler is measuring plant\n communities at permanent vegetation monitoring plots established as part of NOAA\u2019s Sentinel Site program. He expects the location of these communities to shift as lake levels change over time. We are using EDC\u2019s UAV to collect high-resolution,\n spatially accurate imagery to map important features along this river corridor. We were also interested to see if UAV imagery could be used to identify and map ash trees along the riverbanks. Ash tree mortality is expected to increase\n as the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle, moves into the area. Dr. Schooler is currently assessing the ecological consequences of this invasion.<\/p>\n

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We were interested in collecting late season, leaf-off imagery along the Pokegama River. We operated the UAV at 200 ft and 300 ft AGL varying the image side- and overlap to obtain the best results. At 200 ft AGL, pixel size was 1.0in\n (2.54cm) and at 300 ft AGL it was 1.6 in (4.06 cm). We covered the study area with six UAV flights, each under 20 min long, that ranged in area from 5.73 ac (2.31ha) to 36.78 ac (14.88ha). Using the imagery alone (i.e., no ground\n control points were used) spatial accuracy (RMSE, Root Mean Squared Error) ranged from 1.6m (X=1.2m, Y= 0.9m, Z = 0.5m) to 2.5m (X=1.2 m, Y=1.7 m, Z = 1.4 m). We determined that the spatial error was acceptable and that vegetation\n mapping, using GIS, could proceed.<\/p>\n

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REPORT LINK Fall 2016 Executive Summary EDC, Inc. scientists partnered with Dr. Shon Schooler (University of Wisconsin- Superior) to map vegetation at the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve\u2019s Sentinel Site on the Pokegama River. Dr. Schooler is measuring plant communities at permanent vegetation monitoring plots established as part of NOAA\u2019s Sentinel Site program. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1532\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}