<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wiseman, Dion J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brent N. Joss</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garry L. Running IV</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scott Hamilton</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A GIS-based Methodology for Landcover Reconstruction Utilizing Dominion Land Survey Township Diagrams</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Banff</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dominion Land Survey (DLS) township diagrams and surveyor notebooks represent the most comprehensive documentation of pre-European settlement landcover available for much of western Canada. The intent of this research was to develop a GIS-based methodology for utilizing these data in conjunction with contemporary physiographic and edaphic variables to objectively reconstruct pre-European settlement landcover. The relationships between known pre-settlement landcover from DLS township diagrams and contemporary landform and soil characteristics were established and logistic regression analysis utilized to predict landcover elsewhere. Two alternative approaches for applying the resulting regression model were evaluated resulting in overall classification accuracies of 60 and 73 percent.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>