Kevin+Bigsby+Draft

Primary goal:

To create a first draft of the work outlined below intended for publication and find 3 target journals.

Plan for achieving goal:

(1) Fill in table 1- 3/15 (2) Fill in table 2 - 3/30 (3) Fill in table 3 - 4/5 (4) Write results - 4/10 (5) Write discussion - 4/15 (6) Write abstract - 4/20

Kevin's Draft Page

Goal: Create a spatially explicit map of carbon stored and sequestered in Raleigh and Baltimore. Objective: (1) Link the amount of carbon stored and sequestered (dependent variable) to various metrics derived from remotely sensed data (independent variables) (2) Analyze various models and find the best model for each city and both cities. (4) Discuss large residual values (i.e. what does the model not explain) (5) Scale up to the extent of the entire city (6) Compare the cities by comparing the models

Outline

Introduction Urban Forests can help enhance global sustainability in many ways.... one way is by sequestering and storing carbon Thus far carbon sequestration and storage have been measured by UFORE, but this is not spatially explicit My goal is to create a spatially explicit map of carbon stored and sequestered in Raleigh and Baltimore - this will be done by <>.

Materials and Methods Data used We did exactly this (data prep).... To analyze the relationship we used a hierarchical modeling framework to figure out which metrics worked in each city Carbon Storage = LANDSAT NDVI Carbon Storage = NAIP NDVI (metrics - more than one way to measure this at the plot level) Carbon Storage = LIDAR (metrics - more than one way to measure this at the plot level) Carbon Storage = Land cover (metrics - more than one way to measure this at the plot level) Carbon Storage = GIS background layers (e.g., soil, geology, GAP habitat) Model Soup Phase; Carbon Storage = everything from above To scale up to the extent of the city we did this.....
 * Repeat the above for carbon sequestration and then repeat for Baltimore and then for Raleigh and Baltimore combined

Results Present the results in list like prose in order of methods beginning with Raleigh, then Baltimore, then combined Mention model error (RMSE or something) The total amount of carbon stored in each city is... and this

Discussion