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Mapping and Hydrologic Attribution of Temporary Wetlands Using Recurrent Landsat Imagery

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In areas with a high density of ephemeral wetlands, traditional mapping protocols may underestimate occurrence of wetlands when single-date base-imagery is utilized. In the Pleistocene Sand Dunes Ecoregion in Oklahoma, National Wetland Inventory (NWI) maps created using base-imagery from a dry year omitted large numbers of ephemeral wetlands. To improve the likelihood of capturing inundated depressions, we classified water pixels from 51 Landsat images (3 images per year: pre/early, peak, and late/post growing season) from 1994 to 2011. Several image classification methods were tested but decision tree analysis with training pixels from multi-season imagery provided the greatest accuracy. Accuracy was determined through manual comparison of two Landsat images with concurrent aerial imagery (Kappa =0.96 and 0.93 for the two images). Wetland polygons were created from water/non-water rasters and given hydroperiod designations based on the number of inundated periods. Landsat-derived wetland maps identified 3156 wetland units, 718 more than the original 1980s NWI, with only 33.9 % agreement between the two maps. Finally, one meter LiDAR data were combined with classified Landsat images to determine the volume of water in wetlands during each image date. These wetland maps can assist with estimating the availability of inundated habitat during wet, dry, and average rainfall periods.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the United States Environmental Protection Agency for providing partial funding for this project through a 2012, 104(b) (3) Wetland Program Development Grant (CA# CD-00 F42801, Project 2). A special thanks to William Hiatt who spent countless hours digitizing wetland boundaries. We thank the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University for providing access to computers and software. Thanks to Chris Zou for thoughtful reviews of this paper. Additional thanks to Brooks Tramell for his time and insight into project development.

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  1. Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, 008C Agricultural Hall, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    Daniel Dvorett & Craig Davis

  2. Oklahoma Conservation Commission, 4545 North Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK, 73105, USA

    Daniel Dvorett

  3. Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    Monica Papeş

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Dvorett, D., Davis, C. & Papeş, M. Mapping and Hydrologic Attribution of Temporary Wetlands Using Recurrent Landsat Imagery. Wetlands 36, 431–443 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-016-0752-9

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