VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
This image shows the completed portion of the 30-meter resolution land-cover
data set being produced as a cooperative project between the U.S. Environmental
Protection (EPA) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), one of the Multi-Resolution
Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium activities. The small-scale image represents
Federal Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4. The inset shows the Washington, DC area and
illustrates the detail of the land-cover data. The primary data source is Landsat
thematic mapper (TM) imagery supplemented by other spatial data. The procedures
are described in “Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources
of Data” (January 1998 PE&RS). The approach produces regional land-cover
information suitable for a variety of applications, including landscape analyses,
policy development, and modeling of nutrient and pesticide runoff. The conterminous
U.S. dataset will be completed in December 1999 using teams from both the government
and private sector.
Established in 1993, the MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies
that produce or use land-cover data. Partners include the USGS (National Mapping,
Biological Resources, and Water Resources Divisions), EPA, the U.S. Forest
Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For more information, contact the USGS EROS Data Center at 605-594-6114 or mrlc@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov.
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)
Higher recoveries tended to be related to higher percentages of hardwoods,
while lower recoveries tended to be related to forests with nearly equal percentages
of hardwoods and cypress-tupelo
Postwar satellite images were correlated with prewar maps within a GIS to
identify changed surface features in Kuwait’s desert.
Yearbook
667 1998 Board of Directors
668 Region Map
669 American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
670 Installation of Officers
671 Inaugural Address
681 Award Recipients
687 Memorial Address: Charles H. Andregg
696 Who’s Who in ASPRS
704 Building Fund
Announcements
707 ASPRS BUCK$
722 Call for Presentations: ERIM Geologic Conference
731 Call for Papers: 17th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography & Videography
in Resource Assessment
748 Call for Abstracts: 1999 ASPRS Annual Conference
749 Alamo Rent-A-Car
750 GIS/LIS ‘98
Columns & Updates
661 GPS
Departments
705 Sustaining Members
707 Corporate Descriptions
708 New Members
732 Instructions to Authors
747 Forthcoming Articles
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751 Calendar
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755 Professional Directory
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