Feasibility study of wood stork foraging habitat mapping using landsat multispectral data

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5820923

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

The wood stork is a large wading bird which forages in shallow wetlands up to 70 kilometers from the colony. Landsat data were evaluated to determine if remote sensing data were suitable for locating and estimating the extent of potential foraging habitat for this species over such a large range. Thematic Mapper data of north-central Georgia and the Savannah River floodplain in South Carolina were obtained May 5, 1984. Spectral signatures from known foraging sites near a colony in Georgia were identified. Computer clustering techniques were used to identify and map shallow water and marsh wetland foraging habitats. Foraging acreages were computed, and maps of the locations of candidate foraging sites were produced for a 1520-square-kilometer area. Remote sensing appears to provide a feasible method of evaluating the regional wetland foraging habitat available to this wide-ranging species.

• Research Organization: South Carolina Univ., Columbia (USA). Dept. of Geography; Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 5820923
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-85-119; CONF-8603101-2; ON: DE86008904
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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520100* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Basic Studies-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ANIMAL FEEDS
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
BIRDS
ECOSYSTEMS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FEDERAL REGION IV
FOOD
FORAGE
GEORGIA
HABITAT
LANDSAT SATELLITES
MULTISPECTRAL PHOTOGRAPHY
NORTH AMERICA
PHOTOGRAPHY
PLANTS
REMOTE SENSING
SATELLITES
SOUTH CAROLINA
USA
VERTEBRATES
WETLANDS