University of Louisville
The State of Tobacco: Kentucky Farmer's Response to the Buyout and Analysis of Tobacco Crop Production
Institution
University of Louisville
Faculty Advisor/ Mentor
Andrea Gaughan
Abstract
In order to explore and understand how large-scale agricultural policies impact local land-use farming decisions. This study examines out whether the growing patterns of tobacco in light of the TTPP is detectable on the landscape by a change in crop extent measured by remote sensing classification techniques. Qualitative data in the form of surveys were used to inform land change analysis using remote sensing and land classification via a time series analysis. Training data from various farms for tobacco, corn, and other agricultural products were used to inform Landsat data (multispectral resolution and thirty meter spatial resolution) to accurately identify tobacco. Preliminary results suggest that tobacco farms have shifted west, and scaled up in terms of size, which is congruent with census data. The study will demonstrate the ability to visualize and quantify change caused by the TTPP policy implementation.
The State of Tobacco: Kentucky Farmer's Response to the Buyout and Analysis of Tobacco Crop Production
In order to explore and understand how large-scale agricultural policies impact local land-use farming decisions. This study examines out whether the growing patterns of tobacco in light of the TTPP is detectable on the landscape by a change in crop extent measured by remote sensing classification techniques. Qualitative data in the form of surveys were used to inform land change analysis using remote sensing and land classification via a time series analysis. Training data from various farms for tobacco, corn, and other agricultural products were used to inform Landsat data (multispectral resolution and thirty meter spatial resolution) to accurately identify tobacco. Preliminary results suggest that tobacco farms have shifted west, and scaled up in terms of size, which is congruent with census data. The study will demonstrate the ability to visualize and quantify change caused by the TTPP policy implementation.