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Gwydir Wetlands
Location
Big Leather
Gwydir Wetlands lie within Gwydir Raft
the Murray-Darling Basin in
north-east NSW
Gwydir was chosen as the Landsat polygons with MODIS information => ISO
locality for this study classification
Image production
and preparation Ingest to
vector database
Vector analysis
Management decisions
Individual NBAR corrected TM scene
Biophysical proxies
•Vegetation Indices
•Soil Indices
• Objects based on
long term dynamics
can be used to
analyse individual
scenes
Object Oriented Classification Cont.
Fuzzy classification system – water detection
example
Fuzzy classification system – water detection
example
January September November December
Brighton Waterhole
Gingham (Palustrine)
Brighton Waterhole (Lacustrine)
Management implications
Characterise the long term behaviour of key wetland
indicators:
1. Inundation (Open Water)
a. Extent
b. Duration
c. Timing
2. Wetted extent
a. duration
b. timing
Provides core dataset of key biophysical parameters for
use by wetlands specialists/managers
Management implications
Characterise wetland inundation regimes for a range of
temporal scales
– Intra-annual
– Inter-annual
– Inter-decadal
Identify fundamental land use changes
Wetland->cropping
Response to flow control structures
Management implications
Trend analysis in multi-temporal data gives managers an
insight into changes in wetland characteristics.
Ability to:
1. Monitor irrigation regimes
2. Detect clearing and other changes
3. Determine wetted extent which may influence future
water allocation for irrigation – adaptive allocation?
Future work
1. Incorporate more data in processing (subset only
here)
2. Cloud and cloud shadow masking – prototype
developed in this pilot but needs refinement
3. Avoid use of thresholds – self adaptive – further
process refinement
4. Apply to Landsat replacement dataset
5. Faster NBAR processing and access to data
What next?
Time
Coefficients that characterise time series
Slope of the ‘green up’ or growth phase
EVI
Time
‘Green up’ slope
Minimum greenness
low high
Timing of peak greenness
Combination of 3 time series coefficients
Wetland complexes
Clustering coefficient
Cropping
Grassland
Wetland
Forest
Clustering coefficients with Landsat