Landsat ETM+ False-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan
Open-File Report
2007-1029
By: Philip A. Davis
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Abstract
In 2005, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency contracted with the U.S. Geological Survey to perform assessments of the natural resources within Afghanistan. The assessments concentrate on the resources that are related to the economic development of that country. Therefore, assessments were initiated in oil and gas, coal, mineral resources, water resources, and earthquake hazards. All of these assessments require geologic, structural, and topographic information throughout the country at a finer scale and better accuracy than that provided by the existing maps, which were published in the 1970's by the Russians and Germans. The very rugged terrain in Afghanistan, the large scale of these assessments, and the terrorist threat in Afghanistan indicated that the best approach to provide the preliminary assessments was to use remotely sensed, satellite image data, although this may also apply to subsequent phases of the assessments. Therefore, the first step in the assessment process was to produce satellite image mosaics of Afghanistan that would be useful for these assessments. This report discusses the production of the Landsat false-color image database produced for these assessments, which was produced from the calibrated Landsat ETM+ image mosaics described by Davis (2006).
Suggested Citation
Davis, P.A., 2007, Landsat ETM+ False-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan (Version 1.0): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1029, 22 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071029.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Landsat ETM+ False-Color Image Mosaics of Afghanistan |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2007-1029 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20071029 |
| Edition | Version 1.0 |
| Year Published | 2007 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Contributing office(s) | Astrogeology Science Center |
| Description | 22 p. |