CKGR Lion Research Appendix 1 Imagery used for habitat analysis in Chapter 2.
For ANU Research Thesis entitled : The Ecology and Management of Kalahari Lions in a Conflict Area in Central Botswana.
This chapter describes the collection of in-situ vegetation data used to construct the vegetation map in ground trothing remotely sensed imagery. The imagery used to create the maps was kindly made available from the GeoEye foundation and was acquired by GeoEye-1 satellite, in May 2010, coinciding with vegetation surveys. Each image covers 200 square kilometres at a resolution of 1m2, and 2 images from my allocation were combined with 2 images from a colleague‘s allocation within the study area. Individual image codes were from the 20100527084643216030316008772010052708464321603031 line of section and these codes are:
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These were combined with a lower resolution (30m2) Landsat 5 imagery that is freely available from the United States Geological Survey. A single image that coincided with vegetation surveys and displayed minimal cloud cover was selected from Surface Reflectance data products from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (Figure X.1.1 below). That image code is LT51740752010097JSA00, acquired on the 7th April 2010.
Figure X.1.1 True colour Landsat 5 surface reflectance thematic mapper imagery used to classify the habitat map in Chapter 1.
The resulting paper is published by Niti Mishra in the International Journal of Remote Sensing: Relating Spatial Patterns of Fractional Land Cover to Savanna Vegetation Morphology Using Multi-scale Remote Sensing in the Central Kalahari (vol 35, pg 2082, 2014). DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.885666
Figures from that publication are available at this page.
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