Vegetation Cover Types of Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park Derived from LANDSAT Thematic Mapper Data
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Title:
Vegetation Cover Types of Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park Derived from LANDSAT Thematic Mapper Data Report SFRC-86/03
Creator:
outh Florida Natural Resources Center/South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park
Lance H. Gunderson
David P. Brannon
Gary Irish
Place of Publication:
Homestead
Florida
Publisher:
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
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Abstract:
Documentation of the vegetation resources of Everglades National Park is one tool used by the National Park Service to meet management objectives. Information from time-series analysis can be used to evaluate vegetation changes, and therefore determine success or failure of resource preservation. In addition, vegetation analyses may be used .to test efficacy of wide-scale management actions, such as experimental water deliveries authorized by Congress (PL 98-181). The type of vegetation analysis examined during this study is the depiction of spatial patterns of vegetation cover types or plant associations using LANDSAT IV Thematic Mapper data. Data from previous LANDSAT satellites have been used in the past to map various features of southern Florida wetlands and Everglades National Park. Higer et al. (1970) used Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) data to map hydrologic patterns of the Everglades. Rose and Rosendahl (1979, 1983) mapped the distribution of four "hydro-biologic" zones in the Shark River Slough of Everglades National Park. Capehart et al. (1977) found limited applications of the MSS data to map the distribution of an exotic tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, throughout southern Florida. ( English )

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Florida International University
Holding Location:
South Florida Natural Resource Center
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I 29.95: SFRC-86/03 ( sudoc )