The Application of Remote Sensing to Site- and Species-Specific Wildlife Habitat Analysis

摘要

The major objective of this study is to test a proposed index designed to measure spatial relationships as an index of wildlife habitat quality. The index is species specific and is a function of interspersion, juxtaposition, and the presence of exclusion factors within the area, and for the species in question. A sensitivity analysis is conducted to determine how changes in various parameters affect the index value. These parameters include: cell size, cell shape, number of cover types, weighing factors, and classification accuracy.