Workshop Description: This workshop is designed as an intensive introductory 3 day session of lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises that emphasize the use of manual and cognitive interpretation skills of aerial photography/imagery as applied to assessing and mapping wetland vegetation from species level to broad vegetative level classifications. This workshop will also provide necessary imagery analytical skills for assessing classification performance of computer generated classification routines and products. 

Included is a full day field trip to develop imagery recognition signatures and verify wetland interpretations made in the classroom. Course content has been designed for natural resource mapping specialist, field biologists, researchers, and others who deal with wetland wildlife habitat, environmental quality and impact assessment. Since interest in this workshop is likely to be high, an early application is suggested.

Date: October 27-29, 2010

Location: Abdalla Hall - Lafayette, LA

Cost: $360

Advanced Wetland Photo-Interpretation

Workshop Description: This three day workshop will cover: The development of a methodology for mapping wetlands projects; an understanding of the NWI wetland and the National Wetlands Research Center Upland Classification System; Photo interpretation of color infrared aerial photographs/imagery; the use of soil surveys, topographic maps, historical wetland maps, and other ancillary information as aids in the Photo interpretation/Analytical process; techniques for ground truthing; and cartographic transformation options of photo interpreted habitats to a standard base map. This course will include classroom lectures, classroom exercises in photo interpretation of habitats with access to stereoscopic options, fieldwork, and cartographic transformation techniques. Several field (2) trips will be experienced to provide classification signature development and classification mapping confidence. An understanding of the identification of wetland habitats from aerial photographs (*as presented in the Introduction to Remote Sensing and Photo interpretation of Wetlands) is essential for this workshop. *Work related experiences can be substituted for the introductory workshop.

Date: November 1-3, 2010

Location: Abdalla Hall - Lafayette, LA

Cost: $360

Contact information: 

Email: ashleyhartley@cox.net    

Workshop web link: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/training/trainingschedule.htm

Phone: 337-266-8502 or 337-262-7699   

Mailing address:    Ashley Hartley

                                    P.O. Box 43090       

                                    Lafayette, LA 70504