Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Quebec City, QC
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946862
