LiDAR-based potato crop suitability mapping along the Upper Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick

dc.contributor.advisorArp, Paul
dc.contributor.authorLemieux, Kamille Eve
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T17:44:41Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T17:44:41Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.description.abstractThis thesis reports on potato crop suitability mapping along the Upper Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick based on province-wide available high-resolution light detection and ranging (LiDAR) derived digital elevation model (DEM). Potato crop suitability rating was done by way of multi-criteria evaluation accounting for (i) topsoil and subsoil texture, (ii) soil calcareousness, (iii) soil coarse fragment content, (iv) depthto-compaction of soil, (v) soil drainage (depth-to-water table (DTW)), and (vi) elevation (slope percent). It was found that: 1. the tax assessment values of farmlands and farm and woodland combinations reflect the soil suitability for potato cropping across the Saint John River Valley, as mapped; 2. some of the field-surveyed soil property and associated tuber yield variations can be quantified and mapped using the LiDAR-DEM derived flow channels and associated DTW layers; this verification was done based on three published field-survey reports that deal with potato cropping near Saint-André, Florenceville, and Hartland, NB.
dc.description.copyright©Kamille Lemieux, 2022
dc.format.extentxviii, 136
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/37516
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.relationNew Brunswick Department of Agriculture
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineForestry and Environmental Management
dc.titleLiDAR-based potato crop suitability mapping along the Upper Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick
dc.typemaster thesis
oaire.license.conditionother
thesis.degree.disciplineForestry and Environmental Management
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.Sc.F.

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