North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation

Classification and mapping of ecological zones on a global scale has been a topic of research for many years. This research looks at the development of a global spatial database of ecological zones for the FRA 2000 Report of the United Nations FAO. Besides evaluating the most appropriate type of cla...

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Main Author: Douville, Michelle.
Other Authors: Lewis, John (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 1999
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-QMM.303692014-02-13T03:49:59ZNorth American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validationDouville, Michelle.Biotic communities -- North America -- Classification.Biotic communities -- North America -- Maps.Ecology -- North America -- Maps.Vegetation and climate -- North America -- Maps.Forest Resources Assessment Programme (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)Classification and mapping of ecological zones on a global scale has been a topic of research for many years. This research looks at the development of a global spatial database of ecological zones for the FRA 2000 Report of the United Nations FAO. Besides evaluating the most appropriate type of classification scheme for this purpose, it explores and demonstrates how existing data, for the United States and Canada, can be reclassified to match the FAO classification scheme. Accuracy of mapping is a synergistic function of error, uncertainty, and quality. An assessment of the draft FAO Level D Ecological Zone map was performed which classifies 10-year average, bi-monthly, smoothed AVHRR-NDVI composites of the conterminous United States by applying linear discriminant and decision tree analyses. The results of the linear discriminant analysis were more significantly correlated to the FAO classes, although both approaches suggest that the classification scheme does maximize between-class variance of the NDVI temporal series.McGill UniversityLewis, John (advisor)1999Electronic Thesis or Dissertationapplication/pdfenalephsysno: 001744371proquestno: MQ64345Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Master of Science (Department of Geography.) http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30369
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topic Biotic communities -- North America -- Classification.
Biotic communities -- North America -- Maps.
Ecology -- North America -- Maps.
Vegetation and climate -- North America -- Maps.
Forest Resources Assessment Programme (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
spellingShingle Biotic communities -- North America -- Classification.
Biotic communities -- North America -- Maps.
Ecology -- North America -- Maps.
Vegetation and climate -- North America -- Maps.
Forest Resources Assessment Programme (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Douville, Michelle.
North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
description Classification and mapping of ecological zones on a global scale has been a topic of research for many years. This research looks at the development of a global spatial database of ecological zones for the FRA 2000 Report of the United Nations FAO. Besides evaluating the most appropriate type of classification scheme for this purpose, it explores and demonstrates how existing data, for the United States and Canada, can be reclassified to match the FAO classification scheme. Accuracy of mapping is a synergistic function of error, uncertainty, and quality. An assessment of the draft FAO Level D Ecological Zone map was performed which classifies 10-year average, bi-monthly, smoothed AVHRR-NDVI composites of the conterminous United States by applying linear discriminant and decision tree analyses. The results of the linear discriminant analysis were more significantly correlated to the FAO classes, although both approaches suggest that the classification scheme does maximize between-class variance of the NDVI temporal series.
author2 Lewis, John (advisor)
author_facet Lewis, John (advisor)
Douville, Michelle.
author Douville, Michelle.
author_sort Douville, Michelle.
title North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
title_short North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
title_full North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
title_fullStr North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
title_full_unstemmed North American ecological zone classification for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Forest Resource Assessment 2000 Project : map compilation and validation
title_sort north american ecological zone classification for the un food and agriculture organization's forest resource assessment 2000 project : map compilation and validation
publisher McGill University
publishDate 1999
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