A High Spatial Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis of Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut (2004–2018)
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Abstract
Changes in vegetation have been observed in areas of the Arctic due to changing climate. This study examines a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series (2004–2018) of high spatial resolution satellite data (i.e., IKONOS, WorldView-2, WorldView-3) to determine if vegetation abundance has changed over the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory, Melville Island, Nunavut. Image data were corrected to top-of-atmosphere reflectance and normalized for time series analysis using the pseudo-invariant feature (PIF) method. Percent vegetation cover measurements and indices derived from local climate data (growing degree days base 5 °C; GDD5) were used to contextualize NDVI trends in different vegetation types and within active layer detachments (ALDs). NDVI showed similar patterns within the different vegetation types and across the ALDs. There was no significant change in NDVI nor in GDD5 over time. However, there were statistically significant (p < 0.05) relationships between the GDD5 and NDVI for all vegetation types. Using field measurements with high spatial resolution remote sensing data helps link changes in NDVI with changes to vegetation and earth surface processes. The challenges of integrating high spatial resolution satellite data from different sensors in a time series analysis are also discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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