ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES UTILIZING ERTS-1 IMAGERY

The author has identified the following significant results. ERTS-1 imagery provides a means of distinguishing and monitoring estuarine surface water circulation patterns and changes in the relative sediment load of discharging rivers on a regional basis. Physical boundaries mapped from ERTS-1 imagery in combination with ground truth obtained from existing small scale maps and other sources resulted in improved and more detailed maps of permafrost terrain and vegetation for the same area. Snow-pack cover within a research watershed has been analyzed and compared to ground data. Large river icings along the proposed Alaska pipeline route from Prudhoe Bay to the Brooks Range have been monitored. Sea ice deformation and drift northeast of Point Barrow, Alaska have been measured during a four day period in March and shore-fast ice accumulation and ablation along the west coast of Alaska have been maped for the spring and early summer seasons.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • NASA Order S-70253-AG. Original contains imagery. Original photography may be purchased from the EROS Data Center, 10th and Dakota Avenue, Sioux Falls, S.D. 57198.
• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

  72 Lyme Road
  Hanover, NH  United States  03755-1290
• Authors:
  • Anderson, D M
  • Mckim, H L
  • Gatto, L W
  • Haugen, R
  • Crowder, W K
• Publication Date: 1974-2-26

Media Info

• Pagination: 129 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ice; Mapping; Surveys
• Geographic Terms: Arctic Regions
• Old TRIS Terms: Arctic surveys; Ice mapping; Ice reporting
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00098616
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NASA-CR-142538 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 1975 12:00AM