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  <dc:creator>Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1975</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Program of the&amp;nbsp;Department of the Interior has been actively participating in the&amp;nbsp;LANDSAT (formerly ERTS) program and other investigations with&amp;nbsp;remotely sensed data. A large number of applications have been&amp;nbsp;demonstrated that can assist in the discovery of nonrenewable resources,&amp;nbsp;monitoring areal extent of renewable resources, monitoring environmental&amp;nbsp;change, and in providing repetitive data for planimetric revision of&amp;nbsp;small-scale maps and maps showing land cover classes. A new and&amp;nbsp;potentially revolutionary approach, that of "automated cartography,"&amp;nbsp;has been initiated through the versatile nature of the data available&amp;nbsp;from LANDSAT. "Automated cartography" as used here refers to the&amp;nbsp;ability to automatically extract land cover classes and relate these&amp;nbsp;classes to geographic position.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/ofr75376</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Status and plans of the Department of the Interior EROS program</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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