Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1996

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Roberts, Charles

Abstract

Protecting Natural Resources, such as drinking water in terms of quality and quantity, is one of the missions of South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Water Supply Planning is one of the many projects at the Planning Department of the SFWMD, in which sixteen counties are analyzed to determine the most accurate population distribution for water supply distribution among the water utility companies. This thesis examines the current methodology which is used at the SFWMD, and addresses its shortcomings. It then introduces a proposed methodology, to improve population distribution analysis, by incorporating satellite imagery. Textural classification of satellite imagery will be used to extract residential neighborhoods from non-residential areas. The resultant residential areas, which is in the form of raster data, then will be converted to a vector coverage to be utilized as an additional source of data. Incorporating satellite imagery eliminates the assumption of homogenous population distribution, which the current methodology is based on and consequently, leads to a more accurate population distribution methodology.

Extent

228 p.

Comments

Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Identifier

FADT15254

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