ANALYSIS OF MULTISPECTRAL DATA USING COMPUTER TECHNIQUES: PENNSYLVANIA, KANSAS, VIRGINIA, AND CALIFORNIA TEST SITES

This report summarizes analysis of multispectral scanner data collected over FHWA test sites in Pennsylvania, Kansas, Virginia and California. Day and night time imagery collected at aircraft altitudes in discrete bands of ultraviolet through thermal infrared radiation, were analyzed using computer-assisted techniques at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS). The overall objective for the test sites studied was to develop techniques for identifying and classifying through computer applications, those surface materials which are significant to highway location and design. Specific accomplishments of the study were (1) mapping surface geology, both unconsolidated and consolidated materials (California); (2) mapping agricultural soils (Pennsylvania); (3) engineering soils mapping (Kansas and to a lesser extent, Pennsylvania); (4) investigation of subsurface caverns (Kansas) and surface depressions (Virginia); (5) evaluating terrain effects on spectral response (California and Virginia and to lesser extent Kansas).

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB-267 823. Also available in set of 5 reports PC E10, PB-267 819-SET.
• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University

  Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing
  Lafayette, Indiana,   United States  47907

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • West, T R
  • Frederking, R L
  • Stohr, C J
  • Woodring, S M
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 39 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aerial photography; Agriculture; Digital computers; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic spectrum; Geology; Highway design; Highways; Imagery; Information processing; Infrared detectors; Infrared radiation; Location; Mapping; Photogrammetry; Remote sensing; Scanners; Soils; Surveying; Surveying; Terrain; Topography; Ultraviolet radiation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Digital techniques; Highway location; Optical images
• Geographic Terms: California; Kansas; Pennsylvania; Virginia
• Old TRIS Terms: Multispectral photography; Scanning; Ultraviolet detection
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159001
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-77- 34 Final Rpt., LARS-196200-1-T-FR, FCP 34E1-054
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-7565
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 1978 12:00AM