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Project Overview
Mellon Foundation and Carolina Population Center
"Geographic Accessibility and Site Suitability: Factors
Influencing Settlement Patterns and their Sustainability in the Ecuadorian Amazon"
Stephen J. Walsh
Carolina Population Center
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
1998-1999
Resource Overview
National Aeronautics and Space Administration"Agricultural Colonization, Settler LULC Dynamics, and Secondary Plant Succession: Factors Influencing Land Fragmentation, Carbon Sequestration, and Landscape Structure in the Ecuadorian Amazon"
1998-2001
Co-Principal Investigators
Richard E. Bilsborrow1 and Stephen J. Walsh2
1Research Fellow, Carolina Population Center; (919) 966-2157 (tel), (919)
966-6638 (fax), bilsb.cpc@mhs.unc.edu (e-mail)
2Director, Landscape Characterization and Spatial Analysis Laboratory,
Department of Geography; (919) 962-3867 (tel), (919) 962-1537 (fax),
swalsh@email.unc.edu (e-mail)
Investigators
Lawrence Band3, Aaron Moody3, and Laura Murphy4
3Department of Geography; 4Department of City and Regional Planning
and Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Satellite Images and Analysis
- 1986 Landsat MSS Bands 4,2,1 with Estimated Finca Boundries & Roads
- Duration in Residence, 1990
- Ecuador Study Area
- Household Size, 1990
- Number of Cattle, 1990
- Sector Level Land Use, 1990
- Settler Household Income - Ecuadorian Amazon, 1990