A remote sensing survey of a section of the Chambers Creek drainage system near Pickwick Dam, Savannah, Tennessee

The issue of wetland mapping and management has become an important concern to several agencies and land owners in various parts of the United States.

Due to the vast land areas involved, the complexity of the wetland ecosystems, the instability of wetland legislation, the lack of management manpower, and political and economic influences, the tools and techniques used in remote sensing are being used more frequently to provide mapping, monitoring, and management information.

This project used a multistage approach to remote sensing in a practical way to map wetland vegetation along a section of Chambers Creek, and monitor with the use of the Landsat Multispectral Scanner and Return Beam Vidicon Imagery, certain changes in the quantity of wetland vegetation between the months of May and December, 1978.

The analysis of the data showed that the test site was a bottomland hardwood wetland area, and that between the months of May and December, 1978, wetland vegetation was cut and cleared from along the test site area of the creek.