Accordingly, a two-stage plan was conceived. Stage one would entail converting the existing printed air photos
into digital orthophotos. Stage two would involve ‘heads-up’ manual digitization to create LULC vector polygon
layers for each orthophoto year, using the orthophotos to guide qualitative LULC classification. The remainder
of this paper reports the methods used for this project’s first of two stages: Orthophoto Generation.
that examine the relationship between fire and shrubland/forest recovery and advancement.