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Olathe,
Kansas Urbanization Visualization
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land development decisions made today determine the quality of aquatic
resources in perpetuity. Once constructed, the urban infrastructure
that collects and delivers water to streams and lakes can be considered
permanent. The time, then, to plan for and protect the future viability
of urban aquatic resources is now. Although urban growth in metropolitan
areas is evident, the time scales over which the cumulative effects
of development become ecologically apparent are gradual enough that
the net impacts are often under-perceived by decision makers. To communicate
the incremental effects of both past and future land development,
a remote sensing derived product was developed. The product utilizes
current, high resolution QuickBird imagery to illustrate projected
growth within the Lake Olathe watershed, a 10,000 acre, urbanizing
watershed in Olathe, Kansas. |
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This work was done by:
Kevin
Dobbs - kevindobbs@ku.edu
Project Coordinator for the Kansas Urban Water Quality Restoration
and Protection Initiative
Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program
University of Kansas
(Click
the image to view the animation)
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