Land Use Land Cover Change Detection for Central American Carbon Management

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Land Use / Land Cover Change Detection for
Central American Carbon Management

• SIAM-SERVIR Workshop II
• Ciudad del Saber, Panamá
• October 17-21, 2005
• Jason A. Tullis, Ph.D.
• John M. Wilson, M.S.
• Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
• University of Arkansas

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October 17th, 2005

• 830-930 Overview
• Welcome and Introductions
• Overview by Dan Irwin, SERVIR Project Manager,
  NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Workshop FTP Site
• ftp//ftp.cast.uark.edu/outgoing/tullis/MesoClass/
  
• 930-1015 Principles of Remote Sensing
• 1030-1100 Carbon Management
• Steve Ogle, Colorado State University
• 1100-1130 Software Installation in Workshop Lab
• 1130-1200 Remote Sensor Data Management
• 1300-1345 MesoStor
• 1345-1415 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
  (SRTM) 2000 Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
• 1415-1500 Introduction to ArcGIS 9.1
  ModelBuilder
• 1515-1615 Introduction to ArcGIS 9.1
  ModelBuilder, cont.

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October 18th, 2005

• 830-845 Goal for Workshop
• Note updated schedule.ppt file on workshop FTP
  site
• ftp//ftp.cast.uark.edu/outgoing/tullis/MesoClass/
  
• 845-1015 Optional Introduction to ArcGIS 9.1
• 1030-1100 Optional Introduction to ArcGIS 9.1
• 1100-1200 Introduction to ArcGIS 9.1
  ModelBuilder, cont.
• 13-1330 Visit to CATHALAC and Photo
• 1345-1500 Landsat-derived 1990 and 2000 Land
  Cover from Earth Satellite Corporation
• 1515-1600 Manipulation of Multi-raster Displays
  in ArcGIS 9.1
• 1600-1615 Introduction to MODIS and MesoClass

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Goal for Workshop
LANDSAT-based
1990
2000
2000
MODIS-based
LANDSAT-based maps are complete
2003
2004
2005
A major workshop goal is to make this transition
by using MesoClass to classify 2000 MODIS-based
land-cover for Central America
MODIS-based maps are not completed
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October 19th, 2005

• 830-845 Overview
• Note updated schedule.ppt file on workshop FTP
  site
• ftp//ftp.cast.uark.edu/outgoing/tullis/MesoClass/
  
• ModelBuilder and MODIS Classification Background
• 845-1015 Techniques in Thematic Information
  Extraction
• 1030-1100 MODIS Data Processing
• 1100-1200 Manipulation of Multiple Remote
  Sensor and Ancillary Datasets in ArcGIS 9.1
• 1300-1315 MesoClass Classification Schema
• 1315-1500 MesoClass Group Unsupervised
  Classification
• 1515-1615 MesoClass Group Unsupervised
  Classification, cont.

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October 20th-21st, 2005

• Techniques in Thematic Change Detection
• MesoClass, cont.
• Reference Datasets
• Accuracy Assessment
• MesoClass Refinement with GIS Modeling