Monitoring seasonal and annual wetland changes in a freshwater marsh with SPOT HRV data [electronic resource].
- Published:
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1989.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description:
- Pages: (14 pages) : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- Westinghouse Savannah River Company, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary:
- Eleven dates of SPOT HRV data along with near-concurrent vertical aerial photographic and phenological data for 1987, 1988, and 1989 were evaluated to determine seasonal and annual changes in a 400-hectare, southeastern freshwater marsh. Early April through mid-May was the best time to discriminate among the cypress (Taxodium distichum)/water tupelo (Nyssa acquatica) swamp forest and the non-persistent (Ludwigia spp.) and persistent (Typha spp.) stands in this wetlands. Furthermore, a ten-fold decrease in flow rate from 11 cubic meters per sec (cms) in 1987 to one cms in 1988 was recorded in the marsh followed by a shift to drier wetland communities. The Savannah River Site (SRS), maintained by the US Department of Energy, is a 777 kmĀ² area located in south central South Carolina. Five tributaries of the Savannah River run southwest through the SRS and into the floodplain swamp of the Savannah River. This paper describes the use of SPOT HRV data to monitor seasonal and annual trends in one of these swamp deltas, Pen Branch Delta, during a three-year period, 1987--1989.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:wsrc-rp-89-834
E 1.99: conf-9003158--2
conf-9003158--2
wsrc-rp-89-834 - Subject(s):
- Other Subject(s):
- Marshes
- Phenology
- Swamps
- Aerial Surveying
- Annual Variations
- Data Acquisition
- Forests
- Historical Aspects
- Monitoring
- Remote Sensing
- Satellites
- Savannah River
- Savannah River Plant
- Seasonal Variations
- South Carolina
- Aquatic Ecosystems
- Developed Countries
- Ecosystems
- National Organizations
- North America
- Rivers
- Streams
- Surface Waters
- Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Us Aec
- Us Doe
- Us Erda
- Us Organizations
- Usa
- Variations
- Wetlands
- Note:
- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1989.
"wsrc-rp-89-834"
" conf-9003158--2"
"DE92009770"
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping-Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ACSM-ASPRS) spring convention, Denver, CO (United States), 18-23 Mar 1990.
Mackey, H.E. Jr. - Funding Information:
- AC09-89SR18035
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