| Abstract: | As a part of the Pacific Northwest Land Resources Inventory Demonstration Project (PNLRIDP), planners from State, regional, and local agencies in Oregon are working with scientists from the EROS Data Center (USGS), Ames Research Center (NASA), and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) to obtain practical training and experience in the analysis of remotely sensed data collected from air and spacecraft. A 4,000 km2 area centered on metropolitan Portland was chosen as the demonstration site, and a four-date Landsat temporal overlay was created which contained January, April, July, and October data collected in 1973. Digital multispectral analysis of single dates and two-date combinations revealed that the spring-summer and summer-fall combinations were the most satisfactory for land cover inventory. Residential, commercial and industrial, improved open space, water, forested, and agriculture land cover categories were obtained consistently in the majority of classification iterations. Census tract and traffic zone boundaries were digitized and registered with the Landsat data to facilitate integration of the land cover information with socioeconomic and environmental data already available to Oregon planners. |
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| ProdID: | 7317 |
| Citation Author: | Todd, William J.; Hill, R. N.; Henry, C. C.; Lake, B. L. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | iv, 26 p. :maps ;28 cm.; (50 p. - PGS) |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 78-378 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data; 1978; OFR; 78-378; Todd, William J.; Hill, R. N.; Henry, C. C.; Lake, B. L. |
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| Text: | Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data; 1978; OFR; 78-378; Todd, William J.; Hill, R. N.; Henry, C. C.; Lake, B. L. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1978/0378/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1978/0378/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
