VOLUME 70, NUMBER 1
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
The cover image was provided by Sanborn and shows a shaded relief view of a
60-squaremile area near Austin, Texas. The area shows part of Lake Travis
and the lower Colorado River, including the Mansfield Dam. The underlying
elevation model was developed by Sanborn as part of an update mapping project
for the Capital Area Planning Council (CAPCO). Lidar data, photogrammetrically
derived break-lines, and land cover information were used as the basis for
the elevation model. Sanborn employed a surface estimation technique rather
than lidar filtering to fit an elevation model surface to the lidar points
and break-lines, which were weighted according to their accuracy. Tree, building,
and hydrology land cover classes were then used to tune the estimation process.
The resulting elevation model meets ASPRS Class I standards for two-foot
contours and is free from the ground clutter artifacts and noise typical
in elevation models derived directly from lidar.
For more information, visit www.sanborn.com.
Contact information: Anthony Thorpe, director of technology, 719-593-0093, athorpe@sanborn.com.
A relative localization accuracy of one percent of the traversing distance
from the landing center is expected to be achieved, and high precision landing
site topographic mapping products, including seamless panoramic image mosaics,
DTMs, and orthophotos, will be produced.
Net primary production (NPP) at monthly temporal resolution for 16 years
(1981-1996) at an 8-km spatial resolution for the approximately 106 km2 area
of Ontario, Canada is predicted.
New photobathymetry and water quality software is described that utilizes
subpixel analysis software with an autonomous image calibration procedure and
analytic retrieval algorithm to simultaneously retrieve and report bottom depth
and concentrations of suspended chlorophyll, suspended sediments, and colored
dissolved organic carbon on a per-pixel basis from four-band multispectral
image data.
Thematic maps of each water quality parameter were generated from the imagery;
the maps of chlorophyll showed spatial patterns consistent with field data
and circulation of the river, and indicated potential point and non-point sources
of algae blooms.
The potential of very high resolution multispectral satellite images for
vegetation mapping, primarily deciduous tree species in “monoculture
stands,” with conventional hard classification processes is presented.
Missing field boundaries were predicted by comparing the within-field modal
land-cover proportion and local variance to increase the accuracy of per-field
classification.
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