Spatial analysis of land cover changes in the Grand Lake Meadows, New Brunswick

dc.contributor.advisorAl-Tahir, Raid
dc.contributor.advisorZhang, Yun
dc.contributor.authorShodimu, Oluwatimilehin Okikiolu
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:22:03Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:22:03Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2016-05-04T00:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe ever growing human activities and economic development will eventually change the relationships between human and the environment. A matter of grave concern is the unsustainable patterns of land use that are considered a major cause for the deterioration of the environment. The Grand Lake Meadows is an important part of the Saint John River wetlands that form the largest freshwater wetland habitat in the Maritimes (east Canada). In this paper, remotely sensed images were used for mapping the use of land use and cover in the Grand Lake Meadow over a period of 20 years. The goal was to undertake a detailed spatially explicit inventory of local trends in land use and land cover changes through classifying the historical images. Other available data like the road network to mention a few were combined with this information to create a database that was used to investigate consequences of land use/cover change. The results demonstrates the flexibility and effectiveness of this technology in establishing the necessary baseline and support information for sustaining eco-services of a wetland thereby depicting the rate of change undergone in the GLM area over time. The study identified a 38% decrease in the wetland from the 1990 to 2001, while there was 4.32% overall increase in the wetland area since then. The result will help the managers to comprehend the dynamics of the changes, prompting a better management and implementation of LULC administration in the GLM area.
dc.description.copyright© Oluwatimilehin Okikiolu Shodimu, 2016
dc.description.note"Masters of Science in Engineering", changed to "Master of..." "Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering" as discipline, changed to "Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering"
dc.formattext/xml
dc.format.extentx, 89 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/13657
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineGeodesy and Geomatics Engineering
dc.titleSpatial analysis of land cover changes in the Grand Lake Meadows, New Brunswick
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineGeodesy and Geomatics Engineering
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Science in Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.Sc.E.

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