Analysing vegetation changes in continental Antarctica using modern UAV-based technology

• Main Author: Pan, Yueming
• Other Authors: Colesie, Claudia
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2020
• Subjects: continental Antarctica; the Rudolph plot; UAV investigation; object-based analysis; Random Forest; vegetation coverage changes; Hallett; Rudolph; Cape Hallett; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1842/37638; https://doi.org/10.7488/era/919

In the context of global climate change, changes in vegetation cover have attracted much attention. Antarctica represents an ideal open-air laboratory to do so and the Rudolph plot (120 m * 30 m) created in 1962 originally at Cape Hallett offers a unique long-term research opportunity. In December 2...