Satellite remote sensing of isolated wetlands using object-orien...

There has been an increasing interest in characterizing and mapping isolated depressional wetlands due to a 2001 U.S.

Supreme Court decision that effectively removed their protected status. Our objective was to determine the utility of satellite remote sensing to accurately map isolated wetlands.

Image segmentation and object-oriented processing were applied to Landsat-7 imagery from January and October 2000 to successfully map isolated wetlands in the St.

Johns River Water Management District of Alachua County, Florida. The January data yielded producer...