Alfredo Perez

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Lecture and Case Study Outlines

Topic: Remote Sensing for Land Use Classification and Mapping

1. Land use classification: Goal of my introduction will be to spark interest in audience by

introducing non-technical aspects related to the topic (ease them into presentation).(~15
minutes)
a. Introduce zoning/land use and the reasoning for it. Some topics to go over:
i. Soil characteristics of some land may be optimal for cultivation
ii. Land close to main roads (highways/freeways,), railroads or airports may be
best for commercial real estate.
iii. Low lying ground may be best to be left empty or for agriculture due to flooding.
b. Introduce problems associated with urban sprawl
i. Climate change
ii. Depletion of energy resources
iii. Depletion of water resources
iv. Pollution
v. Loss of wildlife and agricultural land
2. Technology (~20 minutes)
a. How was zoning done in the past?
i. Note: This is something I would really like to include but I have not been able to
find much information about at this point. I will leave this in my outline for now
so that I do not forget about it but I may remove this. While it isnt crucial
information to the topic, I believe that it would result in a better flowing
presentation and may spark more interest/keep audience engaged.
b. Acquiring data: Different types of remote sensing (advantages/disadvantages)
i. Satellite remote sensing
1. Stress disadvantage of low resolution
a. Reason why the resolution is too low for this application
especially in urban areas, types of land change so quickly
when scanning an area. There could be parks, lakes, malls, high
rises (downtown), suburban areas, rural areas. These can all be
extremely close to each other. Satellite remote sensing
resolution is not high enough to segregate this information.
ii. Hyperspectral remote sensing
iii. Airborne remote sensing (drones)
1. Stress importance of high resolution due to drones being much closer to
ground than satellites.
3. Case Study: Million Trees LA inititiative (~15 minutes)
a. Goals of Million Trees LA initiative:
i. Measure Los Angeless existing tree canopy cover (TCC)
1. Specify exactly what tree canopy cover (TCC) is
 ii. Determine whether or not there is space to plan an additional 1 million trees
iii. Determine the benefits from planting these additional trees
b. Introduce technology
i. High resolution QuickBird remote sensing
1. Include high resolution pictures from the QuickBird website
2. Details on data aquisistion
a. Four multispectral bands (blue, green, red, near infrared)
b. 2.4-m spatial resolution
c. Panchromatic band with 60-cm resolution
d. Projection: California State Plane
c. Introduce method for determining benefits from planting trees
i. Studied planting trees benefits from 2006 to 2010 were extrapolated to 2040
d. Summarize financial investment
i. How much it costs to plant each tree
ii. Benefit values

Potential References (work in progress)

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(2014). Land-use history and contemporary management inform an ecological reference model for
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Jiang, Y., Weng, Q., Speer, J. H., & Baker, S. (2016). Estimating Tree Frontal Area in Urban Areas Using
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Census.