National Cartographic Information Center Newsletter No. 8
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Newsletter 8
In this issue we cover several interesting topics, including a report on the NCIC/Special Libraries Association meeting in Denver, the launching of a third Landsat satellite with a new thermal band, and the formation of a new California map society....
Inventory of land use and land cover of the Puget Sound region using Landsat digital data
Leonard Gaydos, Willard L. Newland
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 807-814
Landsat multispectral scanner digital data from four bands were analyzed using computers to produce land use and land cover information of the Puget Sound region, Wash., for use by agencies in that area. The data were first geographically registered to map coordinates. This registration enabled samples of known land cover...
Arctic continental shelf morphology related to sea-ice zonation, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
E. Reimnitz, L. Toimil, P. Barnes
1978, Marine Geology (28) 179-210
Landsat-1 and NOAA satellite imagery for the winter 1972–1973, and a variety of ice and sea-floor data were used to study sea-ice zonation and dynamics and their relation to bottom morphology and geology on the Beaufort Sea continental shelf of arctic Alaska.In early winter the location of the boundary between...
Metropolitan land cover inventory using multiseasonal Landsat data
William J. Todd, R.N. Hill, C.C. Henry, B.L. Lake
1978, Open-File Report 78-378
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...
Notes on Landsat Image Map Chesapeake Bay and vicinity, winter 1976-1977 (EC 63 Landsat)
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1978, Open-File Report 78-570
Landsat lineaments in western South Dakota
George W. Shurr
1978, Open-File Report 78-249
Land use, land cover, and drainage on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, Eastern North Carolina, 1974
C.C. Daniel
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-134
A land use, land cover, and drainage map of the 2,000-square-mile Albermarle-Pamlico peninsula of eastern North Carolina has been prepared, at a scale of 1:125,000, as part of a larger study of the effects of large-scale land clearing on regional hydrology. The peninsula includes the most extensive area of wetland...
Preliminary applications of Landsat images and aerial photography for determining land-use, geologic, and hydrologic characteristics, Yampa River basin, Colorado and Wyoming
F.J. Heimes, G. K. Moore, T.D. Steele
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-96
Expanded energy- and recreation-related activities in the Yampa River basin, Colorado and Wyoming, have caused a rapid increase in economic development which will result in increased demand and competition for natural resources. In planning for efficient allocation of the basin 's natural resources, Landsat images and small-scale color and color-infrared...
Relationship of landslides to fractures in Potomac Group deposits, Fairfax County, Virginia
William H. Langer, Stephen F. Obermeier
1978, Open-File Report 78-779
Landsliding is a common problem in eastern Fairfax County, an area underlain by Potomac Group (Lower Cretaceous) Coastal Plain deposits of silt and clay interbedded and interfingered with sand and gravel. The slides commonly are present in clay and silt that, on the basis of laboratory tests, appear to be...
Discrimination of hydrothermally altered rocks along the Battle Mountain-Eureka, Nevada, mineral belt using Landsat images
M. Dennis Krohn, Michael J. Abrams, Lawrence C. Rowan
1978, Open-File Report 78-585
Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) images of the northwestern part of the Battle Mountain-Eureki, Nevada mineral belt were evaluated for distinguishing hydrothermally altered rocks associated with porphyry copper and disseminated gold deposits. Detection of altered rocks from Landsat is based on the distinctive spectral reflectance of limonite present at coatings on...
Land cover map from Landsat, 1973, with place names, Washington urban area, D.C., MD, and VA
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, IMAP 858-E
No abstract available....
Land cover map from Landsat, 1973, with census tracts, Washington urban area, D.C., MD, and VA
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, IMAP 858-F
No abstract available....
Comparative resolution of the Return Beam Vidicon's (RBV's) on Landsat
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1978, Open-File Report 78-1107
Plans for high-gain Landsat coverage of coastlines and shallow seas
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1978, Open-File Report 78-867
Recently the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) requested NASA to obtain Landsat coverage of the coastlines and shallow seas of the world, except for the United States, Canada, northern Europe, and the polar regions. Other agencies such as Interior have also requested coverage of specific shallow sea areas and there is...
Proposed parameters for an automated mapping satellite (Mapsat) system (EC 66 Landsat)
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1978, Open-File Report 78-932
Landsat investigations of the northern Paradox basin, Utah and Colorado: Implications for radioactive waste emplacement Part 1. Lineaments and alignments
Jules D. Friedman, Shirley L. Simpson
1978, Open-File Report 78-900
The first stages of a remote-sensing project on the Paradox basin, part of the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) radioactive waste-emplacement program, consisted of a review and selection of the best available satellite scanner images to use in geomorphologic and tectonic investigations of the region. High-quality Landsat images in several spectral...
Interpretation of Landsat imagery of the Talkeetna Quadrangle, Alaska
W. C. Steele, N. R. D. Albert
1978, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 870-C
Principles of computer processing of Landsat data for geologic applications
James V. Taranik
1978, Open-File Report 78-117
The main objectives of computer processing of Landsat data for geologic applications are to improve display of image data to the analyst or to facilitate evaluation of the multispectral characteristics of the data. Interpretations of the data are made from enhanced and classified data by an analyst trained in geology....
Map showing Landsat imagery alignments in Fairfax County, Virginia
Toru Iwahashi, T.L. Heironimus
1978, Open-File Report 78-525
Landsat mosaics of Eastern North Slope petroleum province, Alaska with preliminary interpretation of observed features
N. R. D. Albert
1978, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 928-V
Low-cost computer classification of land cover in the Portland area, Oregon, by signature extension techniques
Leonard Gaydos
1978, Open-File Report 78-186
Computer-aided techniques for interpreting multispectral data acquired by Landsat offer economies in the mapping of land cover. Even so, the actual establishment of the statistical classes, or "signatures," is one of the relatively more costly operations involved. Analysts have therefore been seeking cost-saving signature extension techniques that would accept training...
Map showing interpretation of Landsat imagery of the Ambler River quadrangle, Alaska
Nairn R. Albert
1978, Open-File Report 78-120-J
Map showing interpretation of Landsat imagery of the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska
William Clinton Steele, James R. Le Compte
1978, Open-File Report 78-558-D
Status of Space Oblique Mercator (SOM) projection (EC 64 Landsat)
Alden P. Colvocoresses, John Parr Snyder
1978, Open-File Report 78-682
Landsat 3 Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) imagery (EC 62 Landsat)
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1978, Open-File Report 78-507
Enclosed is a copy of an early Landsat-3 RBV image of Cape Canaveral printed at 1:500,000 scale. The exposure setting was 5.6 milliseconds (ms) which resulted in some overexposure. With the shorter exposure times of 2.4 or 4 ms, which will generally be used, overall exposure should be more normal....
