Southern Lakes, Yukon Territory earth cover classification user's guide : final report - August, 2002 / A collaborative project by: Ducks Unlimited Canada, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Canadian Wildlife Service.
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TextPublication details: 2002. Whitehorse, YT : Ducks Unlimited Canada,Description: 63 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and Ducks Unlimited Canada have been mapping wetlands in the boreal regions of Alaska since 1988 and in Canada for the past two years. The project area chosen was a 3.8 million hectare (9.4 million acre) area in the Southern Lakes region centered on Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Portions of two cloud-free Landsat TM scenes (Path 59, Rows 17 and 18) imaged on August 1, 1999 were used to classify the project area into 31 earth cover categories. The classification scheme was based on Viereck et al. (1992) in Alaska, but was modified to represent the earth cover communities found in the Yukon. Mapped classes included open and closed canopy forests, tall, low and dwarf shrubs, herbaceous, lichen, and wetlands, as well as unvegetated and anthropogenic types. The overall accuracy of the mapped categories was 86% at the +/-5% level of variation. A change detection was performed using an August 24, 1987 Landsat TM 5 image. Changes in earth cover included those due to fires
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42).
Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and Ducks Unlimited Canada have been mapping wetlands in the boreal regions of Alaska since 1988 and in Canada for the past two years. The project area chosen was a 3.8 million hectare (9.4 million acre) area in the Southern Lakes region centered on Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Portions of two cloud-free Landsat TM scenes (Path 59, Rows 17 and 18) imaged on August 1, 1999 were used to classify the project area into 31 earth cover categories. The classification scheme was based on Viereck et al. (1992) in Alaska, but was modified to represent the earth cover communities found in the Yukon. Mapped classes included open and closed canopy forests, tall, low and dwarf shrubs, herbaceous, lichen, and wetlands, as well as unvegetated and anthropogenic types. The overall accuracy of the mapped categories was 86% at the +/-5% level of variation. A change detection was performed using an August 24, 1987 Landsat TM 5 image. Changes in earth cover included those due to fires