Location: Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-13610-030-077-I
Project Type: Interagency Reimbursable Agreement
Start Date: Aug 21, 2023
End Date: Aug 21, 2028
Objective:
This wetland assessment project is a part of the national CEAP network assessing effectiveness of wetland restorations in agricultural landscapes. This project focuses on assessing ecosystem services provided by wetland restorations in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
[1] Characterize the risk to ecosystem service provisioning for wetland habitats.
[2] Assessment of pollination ecosystem service dynamics of protected conservation habitats in cropland.
[3] Assess agricultural nitrate mitigation extent by wetland ecosystems, spatially and temporally, using environmental tracers.
[4] Develop wetland hydroperiod maps in Delmarva.
[5] Head-water ditch mapping and critical source area characterization in Delmarva.
[6] Quantifying hydrologic change with wetland restoration using time-series.
Approach:
This project will:
1) Use the empirical field data to calibrate the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) model to conduct ecosystem service analysis;
2) Compare the function assessment of the Riparia database to that within the InVEST model;
3) Compare the aptitude of different habitats as primary pollinator habitat in the intensive Midwest agricultural landscape;
4) Initiate the long-term goal of field calibration for our pollinator model;
5) Develop a deep learning model to produce wetland maps for the entire Delmarva and explore hydroperiod maps using time series using SAR imagery;
5) Use deep learning models to produce a map of head-water drainage ditches for the entire Delmarva;
6) Use deep learning approaches to demonstrate the potential for extracting micro ditches in low relief landscapes.
