The Effects of Grain Size on Morphological Patterns and Land Cover Within Boreal Wildfire Residual Patches

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dc.contributor.advisorRemmel, Tarmo
dc.creatorSingh, Budhendra Oudesh
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:24:18Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:24:18Z
dc.date.copyright2015-06-23
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:24:18Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractThe post-fire conditions comprise a matrix of burned, partially burned, and unburned patches that are ecologically and financially important. Studying the unburned patches helps planners assess the effectiveness of emulating natural disturbance patterns. MSPA quantifies spatial patterns in terms of their geometry and connectivity of landscape features. The morphological elements were identified for residual patches extracted from the RED-084 fire. Grain size coarsening and parameterizations were measured to find if they altered the frequency of morphologies within 10 land cover classes. Conifers and water classes were the most abundant and significantly different from other classes across most morphologies. Connectivity and transition changes had significant effects on islets and edges respectively. Edge width had a significant effect on cores, perforations, edges, and branches across all grain sizes. These findings can assist in developing a set of rules on the composition and configuration of land cover and morphologies left behind after harvesting.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30702
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectGeographic information science
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.subject.keywordsGeography
dc.subject.keywordsGIS
dc.subject.keywordsremote sensing
dc.subject.keywordsfire
dc.subject.keywordswildfire
dc.subject.keywordsdisturbance
dc.subject.keywordslandscape ecology
dc.subject.keywordsspatial
dc.subject.keywordspattern
dc.subject.keywordsemulation
dc.subject.keywordsemulation of natural disturbances
dc.subject.keywordsboreal
dc.subject.keywordsforest
dc.subject.keywordsOntario
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsresidual patch
dc.subject.keywordsMSPA
dc.subject.keywordsmorphological spatial pattern analysis
dc.subject.keywordsmorphological element
dc.subject.keywordscomposition
dc.subject.keywordsconfiguration
dc.subject.keywordsspatial resolution
dc.subject.keywordsgrain size
dc.subject.keywordsconnectivity
dc.subject.keywordsedge width
dc.subject.keywordstransition
dc.subject.keywordsland cover classification
dc.subject.keywordsmosaic
dc.subject.keywordsfire footprint
dc.subject.keywordsspatial aggregation
dc.subject.keywordsRED-084
dc.subject.keywordsIkonos
dc.subject.keywordsbinary map
dc.subject.keywordsATCOR-2
dc.titleThe Effects of Grain Size on Morphological Patterns and Land Cover Within Boreal Wildfire Residual Patches
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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