Sources of remotely sensed data
EROS Data Center Applications Branch
1978, Pecora IV: Application of Remote Sensing Data to Wildlife Management III-1-III-10
NCIC was established within the USGS to provide a single-point contact source for cartographic-related information, including remotely sensed data. A computerized indexing system, the Aerial Photography Summary Record System (APSRS), shows all holding for Federal agencies, with the long range goal of including data acquired on the state and...
Approaches to remote sensing data analysis
Lawrence R. Pettinger
1978, Pecora IV: Application of Remote Sensing Data to Wildlife Management 1-23-1-30
Objectives: To present an overview of the essential steps in the remote sensing data analysis process, and to compare and contrast manual (visual) and automated analysis methods Rationale: This overview is intended to provide a framework for choosing a manual of digital analysis approach to collecting resource information. It can...
Statistical inference from capture data on closed animal populations
David L. Otis, Kenneth P. Burnham, Gary C. White, David R. Anderson
1978, Wildlife Monographs 3-135
The estimation of animal abundance is an important problem in both the theoretical and applied biological sciences. Serious work to develop estimation methods began during the 1950s, with a few attempts before that time. The literature on estimation methods has increased tremendously during the past 25 years (Cormack...
Definition of regional relationships between dissolved solids and specific conductance, Susquehanna River basin, Pennsylvania and New York
David J. Lystrom, Frank A. Rinella, William D. Knox
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 541-545
This report presents statistical tests for assessing the accuracy and validity of two regional models of the relationship between dissolved-solids concentration and specific conductance. These models are used to estimate dissolved-solids concentrations based on specific-conductance measurements. The two regional models are compared with station models for 27 stream sites in...
Accuracy of flood mapping
D. E. Burkham
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 515-527
Information taken directly from published and unpublished reports was used to appraise the accuracy and the limitations of the three general flood-mapping methods: detailed, historical, and physiographic. In the appraisal, the probable nationwide average standard error of estimate for water depth and elevation in percentage of depth and in meters...
The role of the U.S. Geological Survey in the lithium industry
James D. Vine
1978, Energy (3) 299-304
The U.S. Geological Survey has responsibility in the U.S. Department of the Interior to assess the nation's energy and mineral resources. The evaluation of reserves and resources of a commodity such as lithium should be a continuing process in the light of advancing technology and ever-growing knowledge of its...
Lithium, a preliminary survey of its mineral occurrence in flint clay and related rock types in the United States
Harry A. Tourtelot, Elizabeth F. Brenner-Tourtelot
1978, Energy (3) 263-272
Maximum concentrations of lithium found in samples of flint clay and associated rocks of Pennsylvanian age in different States, in parts per million (ppm), are: Missouri, 5100; Pennsylvania-Maryland, 2100; Kentucky, 890; Ohio, 660; Alabama, 750; and Illinois, 160. Lithium-bearing kaolin deposits are distributed in the Coastal Plain province from...
Stable isotope studies of bedded barite at East Northumberland Canyon in Toquima Range, central Nevada
R. O. Rye, D. R. Shawe, F. G. Poole
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 221-229
Several beds of barite occur in the Slaven Chert at East Northumberland Canyon in the Toquima Range of central Nevada. Most of the barite is internally laminated but shows massive weathering. However, rosette, disseminated, conglomeratic, and concretionary varieties also occur. New fossil evidence from conodonts and brachiopods indicates a Late...
Heavy-mineral variability in the Baltimore Canyon trough area
H.J. Knebel, David C. Twichell
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 215-219
Petrographic analyses of bottom sediments from 87 stations within a relatively large subarea (1700 square kilometers) define the local variability and the distributional processes of heavy minerals in the Baltimore Canyon Trough area (13500km2 ). Of the 29 mineral groups that were identified, those most diagnostic of differences between...
Accuracy of selected land use and land cover maps in the Greater Atlanta region, Georgia
Katherine Fitzpatrick-Lins
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 169-173
The land use and land cover maps at 1:100000 scale and at 1:24 000 scale in the Greater Atlanta Region were tested for accuracy. At 1:100 000 scale, 381 points were selected using a stratified systematic unalined sampling technique. Of these 381 points, 343 points or 90 percent were...
An "optimal" filter for maps showing nominal data
Stephen C. Guptill
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 161-167
An "optimal" filtering technique for use with nominal data, such as land use and land cover categories, has been developed. This method is based on the conditional probability joins of neighboring data elements. In addition to its use in performing filtering, the method can be used to calculate the likelihood...
Remote-sensing methods for monitoring surface coal mining in the northern Great Plains
Ned Mamula Jr.
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 149-160
Recent studies at a large surface coal mine in southern Montana confirm that remote sensing is both feasible and effective for gathering land-use and environmental data (spatial, dynamic, and seasonal) for large-scale surface mines in the northern Great Plains. The Western Energy Co.'s Rosebud mine near Colstrip, Mont., was selected...
Hydraulic characteristics of the White River streambed and glacial-outwash deposits at a site near Indianapolis, Indiana
William Meyer
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 273-283
An aquifer test was made in the glacial-outwash aquifer along the course of the White River in Marion County, Ind., to establish the hydraulic characteristics of this unit and the hydraulic conductivity of the White River streambed at a site 11 kilometers south of the center of downtown Indianapolis. In...
Models for calculating density and vapor pressure of geothermal brines
Robert W. Potter II, John L. Haas Jr.
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 247-257
In a model for estimating density of a brine, the density of a natural brine at a known temperature, pressure, and composition can be calculated from the densities of the component salt solutions in the complex brine. A model for estimating vapor pressure requires two direct or indirect estimates of...
The Aleutian Basin, Bering Sea a frontier area for hydrocarbon exploration
Alan K. Cooper, David W. Scholl, A.F. Marlow, Jonathan R. Childs, George D. Redden, Keith A. Kvenvolden
1978, Conference Paper, Tenth annual Offshore Technology Conference proceedings
The Aleutian Basin is the deep water (>3000 m) basin that lies north of the Aleutian Islands adjacent to the Bering Sea continental shelf. The basin, about the size of the state of Texas, is underlain by a 2-9 km-thick flat-lying sequence of mostly Cenozoic sediment and rock that includes...
Urban stormwater runoff data for a residential area, Pompano Beach, Florida
Harold C. Mattraw Jr., Jack Hardee, Robert A. Miller
1978, Open-File Report 78-324
Rainfall, storm-sewer discharge, and water-quality analyses of storm runoff are summarized for a single-family residential area near Pompano Beach, Florida. The area of the drainage basin is 41 acres of which 61 percent is pervious sod lawns and 39 percent is impervious roofs, driveways and streets. The land surface is...
Effects of bottom sediments on infiltration from the Miami and tributary canals to the Biscayne aquifer Dade County, Florida
Wesley L. Miller
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-36
Infiltration from the Miami Canal and its tributaries is an important source of recharge to the Biscayne aquifer in the vicinity of the Miami Springs-Hialeah well fields. Estimates of pumpage contributed by canal infiltration decreased from nearly 100 percent in the late 1940 's to 50 percent in May 1973...
Water resources data for Iowa, water year 1977
U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Report
No abstract available....
MOSS user's manual
Larry Salmen, James Gropper, John Hamill, Barbara Gentry
1978, FWS/OBS 78/96
The Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS) Users' Manual is specialized document has been designed for trained users of the MOSS interactive graphics software. Those totally unfamiliar with MOSS or Geographic Information Systems are referred elsewhere as described below: -- If you know nothing about MOSS or what it can do...
Landsat digital data classification for land use and wildlife habitat inventory
1978, Report
No abstract available....
Potential applications of satellite imagery in some types of natural resource inventories
Wayne G. Rohde
H. Gyde Lund, Vernon J. LaBau, Peter F. Ffolliott, David W. Robinson, editor(s)
1978, Conference Paper, Integrated inventories of renewable natural resources: Proceedings of the workshop
Landsat satellite imagery has been routinely available to researchers and resource scientists since 1972. Many studies have demonstrated the application of Landsat imagery for conducting inventories and mapping various natural resources. Examples of applications presented in this paper include: timber volumeinventory, range productivity inventory, wildland vegetation mapping, inventory of rangeland...
Porphyry copper exploration model for northern Sonora, Mexico
Gary L. Raines
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 51-58
The regional tectonic pattern of the porphyry copper province of northern Sonora, Mexico, is similar to, but more complex than, the Colorado mineral belt. Four northeast-trending shear zones, spaced at 30- to 50-kilometer intervals from Hermosillo, Mexico, north to Nogales, Mexico, are interpreted from analysis of lineament data from Landsat-1...
Hypothesis: Many earthquakes in the central and southeastern United States are causally related to mafic intrusive bodies
F. A. McKeown
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 41-50
Assessment of earthquake hazards in the United States is based largely upon knowledge acquired in the seismically active parts of the western United States. Earthquakes in the central and southeastern United States are seismologically and geologically very anomalous, however, compared with those in the western United States. For example, shallow...
Accuracy and consistency comparisons of land use and land cover maps made from high-altitude photographs and Landsat multispectral imagery
Katherine Fitzpatrick-Lins
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 23-40
Accuracy analyses for land use and land cover maps of the 74712-km2 Central Atlantic Regional Ecological Test Site were performed for a 1-percent sample of the area. Researchers compared Level II land use and land cover maps produced at three scales, 1:24000, 1:100000, and 1:250000 from high-altitude photographs, with point...
Determination of runoff coefficients of storm-water-basin drainage areas on Long Island, New York, by using maximum-stage gages
D. A. Aronson
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 11-21
A method for determining runoff coefficients indirectly without direct measurement of volume of runoff was developed for drainage areas of selected storm-water basins on Long Island, N.Y., to expedite evaluation of basin performance. The method requires a maximum-stage gage to record the maximum water level attained in the basin...
