{"id":1023,"date":"2020-09-07T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/?page_id=1023"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:33:31","slug":"msc-thesis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/msc-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Characterizing multi-decadal vegetative greenness and land use dynamics across Canadian urban areas using satellite remote sensing<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">For my MSc thesis I utilized 33 years of annual Landsat satellite imagery composites that span over 40,000 sq-km to characterize multi-decadal vegetative greenness and land use across 18 major Canadian urban areas. Through this work I developed various geospatial information products, including a novel <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opendata.nfis.org\/mapserver\/nfis-change_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #4989cc; text-decoration: underline;\">urban greenness score metric<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>adopted by the national ecosystem monitoring program to support cross-jurisdictional monitoring and inform planning decisions about green space and trees.<\/p>\n<p>My thesis can be accessed from <span style=\"color: #4989cc;\"><a style=\"color: #4989cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.14288\/1.0394938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cIRcle*<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #474646;\">Summary of Content<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #4989cc;\"><a style=\"color: #4989cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/urban-greenness-score\/\">Urban greenness score<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #4989cc;\"><a style=\"color: #4989cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/dynamic-land-use\/\">Dynamic land use classification<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #4989cc;\"><a style=\"color: #4989cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/crss-sct-2020-conference\/\"><span style=\"color: #4989cc;\">CRSS-SCT 2020 conference presen<\/span>tation<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Vancouver-based urban greenness score analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #4989cc;\"><a style=\"color: #4989cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/urban-vegetation-type-structure-and-spectrally-unmixed-greenness\/\">Vegetation type, structure, and greenness analysis<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>* cIRcle is the University of British Columbia&#8217;s digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Characterizing multi-decadal vegetative greenness and land use dynamics across Canadian urban areas using satellite remote sensing For my MSc thesis I utilized 33 years of annual Landsat satellite imagery composites that span over 40,000 sq-km to characterize multi-decadal vegetative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/msc-thesis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39839,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aczekajlo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}