A Method For Quantifying Land Use/Cover Gradients Over Time Around Carbon Flux Measurement Sites. Proposal
- HF-ID: HF2001-08
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Dupont, B.C.
- Foster, D.R.
- Date: March 21, 2001
- Location: United States
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Proposal (NASA)/Project Description/Graphs/Diagrams. 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: carbon, land use history, disturbance, nutrient cycling
- Abstract:
- Research using landscape metrics (measures of landscape richness, evenness, and spatial arrangement of cover types) to quantify land use/cover gradients over time of areas radiating from sample of flux measurement towers. It will compile a large-scale high-resolution historical land use/cover information database from sources including satellite imagery, agricultural census records, and forest inventories. Understanding the contribution of land use/cover change to spatial variability in the footprint areas of flux measurement sites is an important first step in "upscaling" this in situ information. Accurately scaled data will improve existing models that predict carbon fluxes under different climate change scenarios.
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