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Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data

Open-File Report 78-378
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr78378

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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.

Suggested Citation

Todd, W.J., Hill, R., Henry, C., and Lake, B., 1978, Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-378, iv, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr78378.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 78-378
DOI 10.3133/ofr78378
Year Published 1978
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description iv, 26 p.
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