Changing Field Sizes of the Conterminous United States, a Decennial Landsat Assessment
Project Start Date
05/03/2011
Project End Date
05/02/2014
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| Person Name | Person role on project | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| David Roy | Principal Investigator | Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States |
| Tom Loveland | Co-Investigator | U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States |
Abstract
This research will first develop and validate an automated computational methodology to extract cropland and grassland field boundaries and derive field sizes from the WELD processed Landsat data, second generate CONUS field size data sets for three decadal periods: 1987, 1997 and 2007, third characterize the spatio-temporal distribution of field sizes for the CONUS, and fourth address explanatory hypotheses concerned with CONUS field size evolution.
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