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Thematic mapping from satellite imagery
This report, produced between 1984 and 1987 in a bilingual edition (English and French), provides a wealth of information on a wide variety of cartographic applications which are being developed to make effective use of new data that is now being collected by Earth observation satellites. At a time when natural resource development and environmental problems have to be taken into account in their
Estimation of ground-water use for irrigation in eastern Washington using Landsat imagery
No abstract available.
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Peter C. Van Metre, P. M. Seevers
A guide for the use of digital elevation model data for making soil surveys
The intent of this publication is twofold: (1) to serve as a user guide for soil scientists and others interested in learning about the value and use of digital elevation model (DEM) data in making soil surveys and (2) to provide documentation of the Soil Landscape Analysis Project (SLAP). This publication provides a step-by-step guide on how digital slope-class maps are adjusted to topographic ma
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A. A. Klingebiel, Emil H. Horvath, William U. Reybold, D. G. Moore, E. A. Fosnight, Thomas R. Loveland
Using GIS to evaluate map data
No abstract available.
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Michael E. Madigan, J. A. Sturdevant, C.A. Roberts
Conversion of Cartesian coordinates from and to Generalized Balanced Ternary addresses
Hexagonal grids have several advantages over square grids, such as a greater angular resolution and unambiguous connectivity. The Generalized Balanced Ternary (GBT) system is a spatial addressing method for hexagonal grids in which the hexagons are arranged in hierarchical aggregates, and which accommodates vector operations in GBT space. Efficient algorithms for converting Cartesian coordinates f
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Jan W. van Roessel
Intermediate-scale vegetation mapping of Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska using Landsat MSS digital data
A Landsat-derived vegetation map was prepared for lnnoko National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge lies within the northern boreal subzone of northwestern central Alaska. Six major vegetation classes and 21 subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, open needleleaf, needleleaf woodland, mixed, and broadleaf); broadleaf scrub (lowland, upland burn regeneration, subalpine); dwarf scrub (prost
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Stephen S. Talbot, Carl J. Markon
Extracting topographic structure from digital elevation data for geographic information-system analysis
Software tools have been developed at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center to extract topographic structure and to delineate watersheds and overland flow paths from digital elevation models. The tools are specialpurpose FORTRAN programs interfaced with general-purpose raster and vector spatial analysis and relational data base management packages.
The first phase of analysis is a conditio
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Susan K. Jenson, Julia O. Domingue
NOAA-10 AVHRR thermal-infrared image of the Colorado Rocky Mountains
This month we demonstrate an example of the use of thermal infrared imagery to produce a relatively sharp surrogate shaded-relief image. The image shows one aspect of the drama and usefulness of calibrated thermal imagery that (because of compatible projection and pixel size) can be easily combined with other spectral bands of a satellite image. Such data can be enhanced in yet another way by ster
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Kevin P. Gallo, Bruce K. Quirk, Joy J. Hood
Differences in visible and near-IR responses, and derived vegetation indices, for the NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 AVHRRs: a case study
This study evaluates the differences in the visible and near-IR responses of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-9 and -10 satellites for coincident sample locations. The study also evaluates the differences in vegetation indices computed from those data. Data were acquired of the southeast portion of the United States
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Kevin P. Gallo, Jeffery C. Eidenshink
An integrated approach for automated cover-type mapping of large inaccessible areas in Alaska
The lack of any detailed cover type maps in the state necessitated that a rapid and accurate approach to be employed to develop maps for 329 million acres of Alaska within a seven-year period. This goal has been addressed by using an integrated approach to computer-aided analysis which combines efficient use of field data with the only consistent statewide spatial data sets available: Landsat mult
Authors
Michael D. Fleming
The Land Analysis System (LAS) for multispectral image processing
The Land Analysis System (LAS) is an interactive software system available in the public domain for the analysis, display, and management of multispectral and other digital image data. LAS provides over 240 applications functions and utilities, a flexible user interface, complete online and hard-copy documentation, extensive image-data file management, reformatting, conversion utilities, and high-
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S. W. Wharton, Y. C. Lu, Bruce K. Quirk, Lyndon R. Oleson, J. A. Newcomer, Frederick M. Irani
Selected annotated bibliographies for adaptive filtering of digital image data
Digital spatial filtering is an important tool both for enhancing the information content of satellite image data and for implementing cosmetic effects which make the imagery more interpretable and appealing to the eye. Spatial filtering is a context-dependent operation that alters the gray level of a pixel by computing a weighted average formed from the gray level values of other pixels in the im
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Margaret Mayers, Lynnette Wood