Effective vegetation management by Catchment Management Authorities using Hyperion imagery

Author

de Silva, Lakdeepal ; Hsing-Chung Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Environ. & Geogr., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

2031

Lastpage

2033

Abstract

Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) of NSW Australia have been vested with the statutory obligation of protecting native vegetation in the state. The current practice of mapping invasive plants is mainly done by the close collaboration between CMAs and local communities by field surveys/sightings. This study presents a new opportunity to Catchment Management Authority for mapping and monitoring native vegetation and invasive species using hyperspectral remote sensing and its analyses.

Keywords

remote sensing; vegetation mapping; CMA; Catchment Management Authority; HYPERION imagery; NSW Australia; effective vegetation management; field survey-sighting; hyperspectral remote sensing; invasive plant mapping; invasive species mapping; invasive species monitoring; local community; native vegetation mapping; native vegetation monitoring; native vegetation protection statutory obligation; Australia; Hyperspectral imaging; Image resolution; Monitoring; Vegetation mapping; hyperspectral; invasive weeds; vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946862

Filename

6946862