Products, materials and operating procedures for the waterfowl habitat inventory / Ray Schmidt.
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TextPublication details: 1985. I.D. Systems, Ltd.,Description: iv, 48 p. : ill. , maps ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: The Waterfowl Habitat Inventory (WHI) is a wetland mapping program produced from Landsat imagery classified between 1980 and 1984. The inventory was carried out by Ducks Unlimited Canada in cooperation with I.D. Systems, Ltd. and the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS). To date 1:250,000 scale mapsheets representing prairie,parkland, and boreal habitats have been inventoried (Table 1). The reports produced for WHI contain map overlays showing the location of Wetlands 5 ac (2ha) and larger accompanied by statistical descriptions of individual wetlands and summaries compiled b 1:50,000 NTS scale mapsheets.. The summary and individual wetland statistics include estimates of total acres, acres by cover type (i.e., open water and two marsh classes), length of shoreline, and shoreline irregularity. Each report also contains an evaluation of classification accuracy and an overview of Landsat analysis methods. The individual mapsheet reports noted above present the final pro
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The Waterfowl Habitat Inventory (WHI) is a wetland mapping program produced from Landsat imagery classified between 1980 and 1984. The inventory was carried out by Ducks Unlimited Canada in cooperation with I.D. Systems, Ltd. and the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS). To date 1:250,000 scale mapsheets representing prairie,parkland, and boreal habitats have been inventoried (Table 1). The reports produced for WHI contain map overlays showing the location of Wetlands 5 ac (2ha) and larger accompanied by statistical descriptions of individual wetlands and summaries compiled b 1:50,000 NTS scale mapsheets.. The summary and individual wetland statistics include estimates of total acres, acres by cover type (i.e., open water and two marsh classes), length of shoreline, and shoreline irregularity. Each report also contains an evaluation of classification accuracy and an overview of Landsat analysis methods. The individual mapsheet reports noted above present the final pro