Monitoring Local Impervious Surface Trends Using Indices Derived from Property Tax and Several Landsat Datasets.pdfVIP

JournalofEnvironmentalScienceandEngineeringA4(2015)311-328 doi：10．17265／2162．5298／2015．06．006 MonitoringLocalImperviousSu aceTrendsUsing IndicesDerivedfrom Prope TaxandSeveraIILandsat Datasets M arekTopolski DepartmentofNaturalResources,FisheriesService,Maryland21401，USA Abstract：Humaneconomicandsocialneedscanbeinconflictwithecosystem needs．Lna ddevelopmentincreasesimpervious surfacescausingsignificna tnegmiveimpactstoaquaticecosystems．Manyimpervioussurfaceestimatesarederivedfrom remote sensing data,developedbyusingdifferentmethodsandoften outofdate．Remotesensingdataisoften atscalesapplicableto regionalmanagement．butnotlocalplna ningdecisions．Todate，nostandardizedannualdatasetofpercentimpervioussurfaceexists f0ruseatbothlocalna dwatershedscales．Effectivecommunicationbetweennaturalresourcemnaagersandlocalplnanershasbeen lacking．Onesolutionistomonitorpercentimpervioussurfacewiht arelativeindex ratherthna directmeasure．A relativeindex modelcanuseaeDITeDcy。1ikefoundationsquarefeetperhectare，which isusefulforalldecisionmakers．Onedatasourceofr developingarelativeindexofimpervioussurfaceispropertytaxdata．Thesedatadocumentna nual1anddevelopmentatlocalscale． Here．hteauhtorpresentstheuseofMarylandpropertytaxdatatoindexlnaddevelopmentandpercentimpervioussurface． Keywords：Geographicallyweightedrergession，impervioussurface，Lna dsat，MdPropertyView，relativeindex，spatialnaalysis，tax records． 1．Introduction commonly used，therearedrawbacks．Development of％IS estimatesfrom remote sensingdatarequires Land development in the form of impervious singificantexpertise 9【·11]tocorrectofrexternal surfaces(IS)suchasroads，parkinglotsandbuildings factorsthatincreaseclassificationerrorincludingland increasesconcentrationsofpollutantslike