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Record W4229603429 · doi:10.24124/2008/bpgub516

A comparison of greenness estimates from the tassled cap transformation and normalized difference vegetation index as a component in habitat selection models for grizzly bears.

2008· dissertation· en· W4229603429 on OpenAlexaff
John Paczkowski

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWildlife Ecology and Conservation
Canadian institutionsLakehead UniversityCanadian HeritageUniversity of Northern British ColumbiaLibrary and Archives Canada
FundersU.S. Forest Service
KeywordsHabitatNormalized Difference Vegetation IndexGrizzly BearsVegetation (pathology)GeographyRange (aeronautics)Environmental scienceSelection (genetic algorithm)Plateau (mathematics)EcologyPhysical geographyRemote sensingUrsusLeaf area indexMathematicsBiologyComputer science

Abstract

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Improving habitat-selection models for grizzly bears is important to the conservation and management of the species. Remote-sensing data can be used to derive vegetation indices from Landsat TM, a surrogate for habitat quality. This study compared and evaluated Tasseled Cap Analysis (TCA) 'Greenness' and NDVI based on grizzly bear habitat selection, derived from radio-telemetry, in central British Columbia. Four groups of habitat models were developed for the mountain and plateau portions of the study area. AIC was used to rank the models and a k-fold cross validation to evaluate these competing models. One model using TCS greenness and a 21x21-pixel buffer with data from mountainous regions had the best predictive ability. Bears in the mountains are more dependant on vegetation as a food source, which is reflected in their selection for areas of higher greenness compared to plateau bears which have more access to ungulates and have larger home range sizes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.132
Threshold uncertainty score0.262

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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