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Validating satellite imagery products of woody thickening using aerial photograph interpretation: methods and preliminary results
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Author
Gibson, R.
Horn, G.
Gill, T.
Denham, R.
Watson, F.
Grant, R.
Publisher
Australian Rangeland Society
Publication Year
2015
Body

The increase in woody plant density in grasslands and the conversion of open woodlands into
shrublands (i.e. woody thickening) is a phenomenon that has been increasingly reported in the past
decade and is particularly common across arid and semi-arid regions of Australia. The goal of this
project was to investigate the trends in woody vegetation cover change across western NSW to
inform assessments of carbon potential, landscape productivity and habitat change. Landsatimagery
from January 1988 to December 2012 (25 years), was used to develop models of linear trend in
persistent green cover over time (‘trend product’). The trend . . . . .

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Poster
Additional Information
It is recommended that papers in the conference proceedings be cited in the following manner:
Bastin, G, Sparrow, A, Scarth, P., Gill, T. Barneston, J. and Staben G. (2015). Are we there yet? Tracking state and change in Australia's rangelands. In Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Alice Springs (Ed M.H. Friedel) [Australian Rangeland Society: Perth]
Collection
Australian Rangelands
Keywords
aerial photograph interpretation
API
Australia
Landsat
western New South Wales
Western NSW
woody thickening