Six years of monitoring annual changes in a freshwater marsh with SPOT HRV data

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6752610

Mackey, Jr, H E

Fifteen dates of spring-time SPOT HRV data along with near-concurrent vertical aerial photographic and phenological data from spring 1987 through spring 1992 were analyzed to monitor annual changes in a 150-hectare, southeastern floodplain marsh. The marsh underwent rapid changes during the six years from a swamp dominated by non-persistent, thermally tolerant macrophytes to persistent macrophyte and shrub-scrub communities as reactor discharges declined to Pen Branch. Savannah River flooding was also important in the timing of the shift of these wetland communities. SPOT HRV data proved to be an efficient and effective method to monitor trends in these wetland community changes.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 6752610
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-92-435; CONF-930244-1; ON: DE93004255
• Resource Relation: Conference: Annual meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, New Orleans, LA (United States), 16-18 Feb 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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