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Use of digital land-cover data from the Landsat satellite in estimating streamflow characteristics in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee

Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4059
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri824059

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Abstract

Streamflow may be estimated with regression equations that relate streamflow characteristics to characteristics of the drainage basin. A statistical experiment was performed to compare the accuracy of equations using basin characteristics derived from maps and climatological records (control group equations) with the accuracy of equations using basin characteristics derived from Landsat data as well as maps and climatological records (experimental group equations). Results show that when the equations in both groups are arranged into six flow categories, there is no substantial difference in accuracy between control group equations and experimental group equations for this particular site where drainage area accounts for more than 90 percent of the variance in all streamflow characteristics (except low flows and most annual peak logarithms). (USGS)

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Hollyday, E., Hansen, G., 1983, Use of digital land-cover data from the Landsat satellite in estimating streamflow characteristics in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4059, v, 48 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri824059.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Use of digital land-cover data from the Landsat satellite in estimating streamflow characteristics in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 82-4059
DOI 10.3133/wri824059
Year Published 1983
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description v, 48 p.
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