APPLIED REMOTE SENSING
GER 5750/6750
- Vegetation Map of Logan Canyon Drainage
- Agricultural Land Cover/Land Use map of Cache County
- Landform and Structure Mapping of the Bear River Range
- Wildlife Habitat Mapping on the Bear River Range
- Water Resources and Quality
- Wetland and Riparian Area Identification in Cache Valley
- Use of remotely sensed data coupled with ancillary data to identify playa
bottoms in the great basin - brightness; flow accumulation; etc.
- Detection of salinity problems
- Identification of fire frequency over large landscapes.
- Automatic identification of change over
large landscapes and the direction of that change.
- Utility of archival aerial photography to evaluate landscape change: Orthocorrection;
brightness; resolution.
- What has been the historic cost of satellite imagery accounting for spectral,
radiometric, spatial resolutions, and area covered?
- Use AVHRR data to generate average phenology curves for 10 year period.
- Estimation of seasonal variability
by between year comparison.
- Estimation of yealy variability by comparison of control between years.
- Repeatability of land cover classification using remotely sensed data -
Give the same database to four different people and see how close they come
to each other using any method they want
Possible Thesis Questions:
Aspen:
- Detection of Seral Stages using Remote Sensing
- Characterization of Aspen Phenology over a growing Season by Seral Stage
- Modeling Aspen Vigor
- Influence of Topography on Aspen: Elev, Asp, Slp, Slp Shape, Flow Acc.,
etc.
- Regional Comparison of relative Health of Aspen - SWGap Offshoot
- Remote Estimation of NPP for Aspen
- Interrelationships between Seral Stages and Topography to NPP in Aspen
SWGap
- Modeling land cover to the TNC alliance level over the SWGap region.
- Agregation of alliances to meet SWGap mapping constraints
Other
- Web Based Extraction Tool for MODIS Data
- Identification of Pseudo-Invariant Features to Relatively Standardize Temporally
Separate Remotely Sensed Imagery
LEMA
- Validation of critical habitat for mule deer