The development and application of a county-level geographic database
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper us to describe the collection of land use data by remote sensing techniques, the incorporation of land use, soils and slope data into a geographic database, and an application of geographic database techniques to a county planning problem. Land use data were successfully interpreted from aerial photographs and incorporated in a geographic database along with digital slope and soils data. All data were registered to a common map base and rasterized to 50- by 50-meter grid cells. Data combination procedures were applied to the database to produce an image depicting areas of relative suitability for dwelling unit construction. This image can be used for planning future urban development. However, the limitations of this suitability image, which have been introduced through data resolution, data combination techniques, and subjectively made decisions, must be considered by data users.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | The development and application of a county-level geographic database |
| Year Published | 1981 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Society of Photogrammetry |
| Publisher location | Falls Church, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Remote sensing — An input to geographic information systems in the 1980's, William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing, 7th |
| First page | 383 |
| Last page | 392 |
| Conference Title | 7th William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing |
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