Possible+Changes+in+Area+related+to+Humans

To help understand if there were any changes in the study area affected by humans, the following project was performed. This project included the use of an Anthromes Dataset to determine any differences by the different anthropogenic classes. During this project, the following information was studied in order to better understand and answer several key questions.

The following is the steps that were carried out, as well as the result of each step, in detail in order to reach a conclusion.

Step 1: The first step involved taking both the Anthromes Dataset and MODIS NDVI Time Data and sudsetting my study area onto it to create a new dataset and time series containing only my study area.


 * Once these images were created, the following information was looked at:
 * Image Dimensions
 * Columns
 * Anthromes: 399
 * MODIS NDVI Time Series: 664
 * Line
 * Anthromes: 121
 * MODIS NDVI Time Series: 201
 * Bands
 * Anthromes: 1
 * MODIS NDVI Time Series: 144
 * Number of time steps in the time series: 9
 * Number of observations per year: 16
 * As the above data shows, the MODIS Time Series contains more columns and lines. One reason for this difference in size is due to the fact that the time series can be treated as a float and subset over the Anthomes data without fear of losing data. __K Comment: the difference in columns and lines is a result of the different pixel size.__

Step 2: The next step was to match the MODIS dataset to the Anthromes dataset. This is nessacery since the two images are in different spatial resolutions (Anthromes: 0.083 & MODIS: 0.05). The MODIS pixels were blown up to match those of the Anthromes. The reason this was done instead was shrinking the Anthromes is due to the fact that if you shirnk the data, you would have areas up overlay on the images that no classification has been assigned to. __K comment: please watch your spelling.__