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Data Series 745

Prepared in cooperation with Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Classifications for Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act Site-Specific Projects: 2010

By William R. Jones and Adrienne Garber

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The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) funds over 100 wetland restoration projects across Louisiana. Integral to the success of CWPPRA is its long-term monitoring program, which enables State and Federal agencies to determine the effectiveness of each restoration effort. One component of this monitoring program is the classification of high-resolution, color-infrared aerial photography at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Color-infrared aerial photography (9- by 9-inch) is obtained before project construction and several times after construction. Each frame is scanned on a photogrametric scanner that produces a high-resolution image in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). By using image-processing software, these TIFF files are then orthorectified and mosaicked to produce a seamless image of a project area and its associated reference area (a control site near the project that has common environmental features, such as marsh type, soil types, and water salinities.) The project and reference areas are then classified according to pixel value into two distinct classes, land and water. After initial land and water ratios have been established by using photography obtained before and after project construction, subsequent comparisons can be made over time to determine land-water change.

First posted May 3, 2013

For additional information contact:
Director, National Wetlands Research Center
U.S. Geological Survey
700 Cajundome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
337–266–8500
http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/

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Suggested citation:

Jones, W.R., and Garber, Adrienne, 2013, Classifications for Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) site-specific projects—2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 745, 8 p. and 10 maps., https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/745/.



Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Monitoring Program Overview

Methods

Conclusion

References


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