1. Hill Country Associates Pedernales River analysis
Team:
Kelly Blanton, Erica Tice, William Weldon, and Paul Starkel

2. Overview Introduction Data Literature Review Methods Timeline Budget
Final Deliverables

3. Introduction
The Pedernales River Basin is an area of approximately 815,000 acres located in the central Texas Hill Country
The Pedernales river is prone to major fluctuation in water levels
Monitoring water quality and quantity is important
Irrigates agricultural and ranching land
Contributes 23% of flow into Lake Travis, a critical source of drinking water for Austin, Texas

4. Data 2014 USDA NAIP Imagery Aerial imagery showing change
National LULC Data Set (1992, 2001, 2006, 2011)
TNRIS
TPWD Ecological Systems Classification Project
Texas Water Development Board
Aerial imagery showing change
Shapefiles showing Land use and Land Cover (LULC) amounts across the area
Ecological Classification system similar to LULC classification

5. Using GIS to Detect Changes in Land Use Land Cover for Electrical transmission Line Sitting and Expansion Planning in Winona County, Minnesota, USA. By Charles U. Uzoukwu
Uzoukwu was able to detect LULC changes in percentage by calculating raster area of each category in 1991 and comparing it to 2001 data.
This way he was able to show the specific size of the change that had occurred in different types of land use.
Using percentage change in LULC he used the Cell Statistics Function and “CON” tool to isolate and display areas of change between and 2001.

6. Little River Watershed, Tennessee
Five main LULC classes were classified: water, commercial land, residential land, mixed forest, and agricultural land.
Images were taken at a two year interval from Landsat images were used to observe LULC change.
Since the spatial resolution of Landsat TM/ETM+ images is 30 meters, each pixel of the image is mixed in nature, especially in transition boundaries among different LULC classes (Zhu and Li 2010).
This study showed that there was an increase in urban areas and forest, while a decrease in agriculture.
The urban growth was concurrent with a rise in population. The increase in forest land may be aligned to farmers seeking employment in the city and abandoning their farms.
Also, an increased conservation effort of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to preserve forest land is attributed to forest growth.

7. Methods
Illustrate the percent change in land use and land cover over the years 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011
a projection of current and future land use in the Pedernales area
Create a visualization of land use and land cover change over time with population data
Show effects of population growth over time by showing increase or decrease in amount of 16 land use classes
measure our pixel size and get a total land area of the different LULC classifications
Use cell statistics functions to show the actual areas where change has occurred between different years of data

10. Timeline

11. Budget

12. Final Deliverables
Report detailing changes in Land use and Land cover in the Pedernales river basin
Analysis and predictions of population growth for the study area
Shapefiles showing land use patterns in the Pedernales river basin area
KMZ files for website access of analysis maps

13. Resources
Pedernales River Watershed: Brush Control Assessment and Feasibility Study. Austin, TX: Lower Colorado River Authority, Pedernales River Watershed. Lower Colorado River Authority, Web. Feb
Texas Water Symposium. "Challenges Facing The Pedernales Basin." Challenges Facing The Pedernales Basin. Texas Public Radio, 27 Mar Web. 12 Feb
Pedernales River Watershed: Brush Control Assessment and Feasibility Study. Austin, TX: Lower Colorado River Authority, , 3-4. Pedernales River Watershed. Lower Colorado River Authority, Web. Feb