Land Cover Classification and Modeling of Ecosystem Carbon Flux in the Barrow Environmental Observatory Using IKONOS Satellite Imagery
Craig E. Tweedie, Fred Huemmrich, Robert D. Hollister, John A. Gamon, Glen Kinoshita, Patrick J. Webber, Brian Noyle, Diana Karwan, Steve Oberbauer, Andrea Kuchy, Walter C. Oechel, Stan Houston, Erika Anderson, Hyojung Kwon, Rommel C. Zulueta, Joe Verfaillie and Stuart Gage.Conclusions The acquisition of the high-resolution IKONOS imagery and the subsequent classification and Carbon flux modeling effort illustrates the propensity of such modern and novel technological platforms to stimulate scientific collaboration across disciplines, facilitate scaling up of plot based measurements, and encourage integration of research effort. The direct consequences of these are an enhanced holistic knowledge base of ecosystem structure and function and added decision power in land management practice. Indirect consequences are the formulation of new collaborations, new and lateral approaches to persistent questions and stimulus for new directions of research.
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