| Abstract: | The Norfolk-Portsmouth Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) in southeastern Virginia was the site of intensive testing of a number of land resources assessment methods, built around the availability of remotely sensed data from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-I), later renamed LANDSAT I. The Norfolk tests were part of a larger experiment known as the Central Atlantic Regional Ecological Test Site (CARETS), designed to test the extent to which LANDSAT and associated high-altitude aircraft data could be used as cost-effective inputs to a regional land use information system. The Norfolk SMSA contains a variety of land uses typical of the urbanized eastern seaboard, along with typical associated problems: rapid urbanization; heavy recreational, commercial, and residential demands on fragile beaches and coastal marsh environments; industrial, transportation, and governmental land and water uses impacting on residential and agricultural areas; drainage and land stability difficulties affecting construction and other uses; and increasing difficulties in maintaining satisfactory air and water quality. |
| Genre: | USGS Unnumbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70039597 |
| Citation Author: | Alexander, Robert H.; Buzzanell, Peter J.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Lins, Harry F., Jr.; McGinty, Herbert K., III |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Geography Program |
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| Citation Language: | English |
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| Citation LatN: | 0380000 |
| Citation LatS: | 0360000 |
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| Citation Number Of Pages: | 363 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | viii, 348 p.; 11 Plates: 85 x 104 cm. or smaller |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Sponsored jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Final Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | Volume 2, Part A |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Norfolk and environs: A land use perspective; 1975; USGS Unnumbered Series; Volume 2, Part A; Alexander, Robert H.; Buzzanell, Peter J.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Lins, Harry F., Jr.; McGinty, Herbert K., III |
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| Citation Year: | 1975 |
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| Text: | Norfolk and environs: A land use perspective; 1975; USGS Unnumbered Series; Volume 2, Part A; Alexander, Robert H.; Buzzanell, Peter J.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Lins, Harry F., Jr.; McGinty, Herbert K., III |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:44 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
