Mapping of wood stork foraging habitat with satellite data

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6038281

Jensen, J R; Coulter, M; Mackey, Jr, H E; Hodgson, M E

Potential foraging sites for an endangered species, the wood stork, were identified using Landsat thematic mapper data for a section of north central Georgia and the Savannah River floodplain swamp in South Carolina. This was accomplished using innovative clustering techniques applied to known wood stork foraging sites around the Birdsville Colony in Georgia. The signatures for known sites were then geographically extended to a 1520-square-kilometer region surrounding the Birdsville Colony. Thematic maps were produced and foraging area acreages computed providing a regional assessment of existing and potential wood stork foraging sites. Approximately 1744 hectarea of potential shallow water and macrophyte foraging habitat were identified in the area surroundings the Birdsville Colony. 14 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: South Carolina Univ., Columbia (USA). Dept. of Geography; Savannah River Ecology Lab., Aiken, SC (USA); Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 6038281
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-85-114; CONF-851266-1; ON: DE86007168
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1. combined meeting of Colonial Waterbird Group and Pacific Seabird Group, San Francisco, CA, USA, 4 Dec 1985; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BIRDS
HABITAT
GEORGIA
MAPPING
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
SOUTH CAROLINA
REMOTE SENSING
SATELLITES
WETLANDS
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
ECOSYSTEMS
FEDERAL REGION IV
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
VERTEBRATES
520500* - Environment
Aquatic- Site Resource & Use Studies- (-1989)