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Smart observation of management impacts on peatlands function (SmartBog)

Habib, Wahaj, McGuinness, Kevin orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1336-6477, Saunders, Matthew, Delaney, Declan orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7028-3307, Regan, Shane orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2129-6117 and Connolly, John orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2897-9711 (2019) Smart observation of management impacts on peatlands function (SmartBog). In: 13th Irish Earth Observation Symposium 2019, 5 - 6th Dec 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Abstract
Peatlands are an important ecosystem due to their role in carbon sequestration as well as other ecosystem services including; climate regulation and water regulation. Peatlands cover a small fraction (~3 %) of the terrestrial surface. Nevertheless, they account for approximately one-third of global Soil Organic Carbon stock. In Ireland, peatlands cover ~21% of the land area and account for between 50-75% of the total SOC stock. However, much of this area has been degraded through anthropogenic activities such as drainage and peat extraction. Therefore, there is a need to develop a system to identify management-related impacts on peatland function. The system will directly support rehabilitation and conservation activities, aiding identification of candidate sites for rewetting and restoration. Both high-resolution satellite data (Copernicus Sentinel-2) and very high-resolution aerial photography will be used. Peatlands will be delineated using the Derived Irish Peat map (DIPM2) in both datasets. Semi-automatic object-based image analysis and machine learning-based techniques will be used to extract the extent of drains on Irish peatlands. Furthermore, a multi-scale approach will be implemented to generate Normalized Difference Vegetation Index maps. NDVI will be generated from both in-situ and remote sensors (Sentinel-2/Aerial imagery). Overall, the outputs generated from these datasets (LULC, drainage and NDVI maps) will be integrated into a GIS framework. The main aim of this study is to assess the impact of anthropogenic management of peatlands, using GIS, Earth Observation and Machine Learning (ML).
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:No
Uncontrolled Keywords:Soil Organic Carbon stock; carbon sequestration; Multi-Scale (Spatio-Temporal) NDVI mapping
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of History and Geography
Copyright Information:© 2019 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research Programme 2014-2020 is a Government of Ireland initiative, funded by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) (Grant no. 2018-CCRP-LS-2)
ID Code:24003
Deposited On:10 Dec 2019 13:37 by Wahaj Habib . Last Modified 10 Dec 2019 13:37
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