UTILIZATION OF SATELLITE DATA FOR INVENTORYING PRAIRIE PONDS AND LAKES

By using data acquired by LANDSAT-1 (formerly ERTS-1), studies were conducted in extracting information necessary for formulating management decisions relating to migratory waterfowl. Management decisions are based in parts on an assessment of habitat characteristics, specifically numbers, distribution, and quality of ponds and lakes in the prime breading range. This paper reports on a study concerned with mapping open surface water features in the glaciated prairies. Emphasis was placed on the recognition of these features based upon water's uniquely low radiance in a single near-infrared waveband. The results of this recognition were thematic maps and statistics relating to open surface water. In a related effort, the added information content of multiple spectral wavebands was used for discriminating surface water at a level of detail finer than the virtual resolution of the data. The basic theory of this technique and some preliminary results are described.

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  American Society of Photogrammetry

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  Falls Church, VA  United States  22046
• Authors:
  • Work Jr, E A
  • Gilmer, D S
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 685-694
• Serial:
  • Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • ISSN: 0099-1112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Artificial satellites; Birds; Grasslands; Lakes; Management; Mapping; Ponding; Water areas; Wildlife
• Identifier Terms: Earth Resources Technology Satellite
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ponds; Surface waters
• Geographic Terms: Great Plains
• Old TRIS Terms: Satellite program
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139266
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM