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Comparative Case Studies on Vegetation Recovery from Hurricane Damage along the Southern Coast of the US using Remote Sensing and GIS

Akter, Rabeya
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1606924198334097

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2020, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
In this study it was investigated if ecoregion type and hurricane-induced vegetation damage are related to recovery period in landfall areas by observing similar and different intensity hurricanes making landfall in different and similar ecoregions. Understanding of the interaction between hurricane intensity and its effects on vegetation could potentially benefit hurricane management plans and policies by observing the trend in damage and recovery period. To analyze the relation between ecoregion and hurricane, this research analyzed two comparative case studies utilizing remote sensing-based satellite images and geographic information system (GIS) tools. Results from the considered cases indicate that there is not a one-to-one relation between ecoregion type and the damage-recovery pattern of hurricanes. It cannot be generalized that hurricanes would affect vegetation similarly in similar ecoregions or differently in different ecoregions. Rather, it was found that pre-existing conditions associated with local weather and climate events and storm-scale meteorological parameters were playing a more dominant role in the characteristics of the damage footprint on vegetation in the studied cases.
Jana Houser (Advisor)
153 p.
Geographic Information Science; Geography; Remote Sensing
US Hurricane; Vegetation damage; vegetation recovery period; hurricane case studies; vegetation index; Landsat image analysis

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  • Akter, R. (2020). Comparative Case Studies on Vegetation Recovery from Hurricane Damage along the Southern Coast of the US using Remote Sensing and GIS [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1606924198334097

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Akter, Rabeya. Comparative Case Studies on Vegetation Recovery from Hurricane Damage along the Southern Coast of the US using Remote Sensing and GIS. 2020. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1606924198334097.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Akter, Rabeya. "Comparative Case Studies on Vegetation Recovery from Hurricane Damage along the Southern Coast of the US using Remote Sensing and GIS." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1606924198334097

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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