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UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Managing Alaskan Native Heritage Landscapes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

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العنوان: UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Managing Alaskan Native Heritage Landscapes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
المؤلفون: Jonathan S. Lim, Sean Gleason, Meta Williams, Gonzalo J. Linares Matás, Daniel Marsden, Warren Jones
المصدر: Remote Sensing; Volume 14; Issue 3; Pages: 728
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: UAV remote sensing, Alaska, archaeology, ethnobotany, multispectral imagery, vegetation indices, capacity building, climate change, subsistence, traditional land use area
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: The Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta is home to the Alaskan Native Yup’ik people who have inhabited this remote, subarctic tundra for over 1500 years. Today, their ancestral lifeways and cultural landscapes are at risk from severe climate change-related threats. In turn, we propose that remote sensing technologies, particularly with sensors mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms, are uniquely suited for protecting Yup’ik landscape heritage. Based on collaborative, community-based fieldwork in Quinhagak, AK, we present evidence that cultural sites—ranging from historic fishing camps to pre-contact winter villages—exhibit predictably atypical vegetation patterns based on the local ecological biome. Furthermore, these vegetation patterns can be recorded and statistically quantified through the analysis of multispectral imagery obtained from UAV-mounted sensors with three different false color composite rasters and vegetation indices depending on biome type. Finally, we suggest how the Yupiit can combine these methodologies/workflows with local knowledge to monitor the broader heritage landscape in the face of climate change.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Ecological Remote Sensing; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14030728
DOI: 10.3390/rs14030728
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030728
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.BB7284E4
قاعدة البيانات: BASE