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Ongoing searches are underway to secure and post additional new useful data
sets and work continues in evaluating current data sets. Additional updates to the
data sets during the project included transet data collected annually from 2007 to
2009 on crops types for use as validation/training data for land cover analysis,
assembling data sets in response to severe flooding and impacts along the Blanchard
River in August 2007, collection of the Landsat imagery for 2007-2009 for the
preparation of a series of annual land use, crop type and tillage analysis, acquisition
of one foot orthophotos for the watershed, collection of the NAIP and LiDAR
imagery available for a portion of the Maumee Basin. Tasks also included compil-
ing the field survey data from 2007 to 2009 for crop type and tillage assessments
collected by NRCS county extension staff into a common database, analysis of
annual land cover from Landsat (including accuracy assessment and % cover
types), development of tile surface creation workflow to assist in creating a bare
earth DSM, and to process the LiDAR and NAIP imagery into ArcIMS.
8.6 Conclusions
The Maumee GIS/Remote Sensing Project has created an array of useful products
to assist with various watershed planning initiatives underway within the basin
including projects undertaken by the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership, USDA
NRCS, and Army Corp of Engineers. The GIS database has been provided on
request to various parties to assist with the preparation of watershed studies, rapid
assessments, crop inventories, sediment modeling, and in response to flooding
events. As further progress is made in determining the critical watershed issues
and prioritizing future projects, programs and efforts within the basin, the GIS and
remote sensing materials will be of continued importance. The project website, with
GIS data layers and the land use/land cover mapping from remote sensing, provides
many important opportunities for public outreach, teaching and the creation of
unique map based products for a variety of watershed projects within the Maumee
Basin. With the ongoing development of watershed based planning within the
Maumee Basin by a variety of agencies and organizations these spatial data sources
will be increased value in plan development.
Acknowledgements Work undertaken under this project has been funded by a Memorandum of
Understanding between the University of Toledo Department of Geography and Planning GISAG
Research Center and the USDA National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) for 2005-2010.
Appreciation is extended to Steve Davis, Cheryl Rice and NRCS staff for their assistance.
Dr. Kevin Czajkowski and Dr. Patrick L. Lawrence with the Department of Geography and
Planning served as the project principal investigators. James Coss and Tim Ault provided technical
assistance as research associates. Graduate students from the MA Geography program at the
University of Toledo: David Dean, Katie Swartz, Phil Haney, and Rumiko Hayase completed
the GIS and remote sensing components.
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