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Alaska Interim Land Cover Mapping Program; final report Alaska Interim Land Cover Mapping Program; final report

In 1985, the U.S. Geological Survey initiated a research project to develop an interim land cover data base for Alaska as an alternative to the nationwide Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Program. The Alaska Interim Land Cover Mapping Program was subsequently created to develop methods for producing a series of land cover maps that utilized the existing Landsat digital land cover...
Authors
Katherine Fitzpatrick-Lins, E.F. Doughty, Mark Shasby, Susan Benjamin

Thematic mapping from satellite imagery Thematic mapping from satellite imagery

This report, produced between 1984 and 1987 in a bilingual edition (English and French), provides a wealth of information on a wide variety of cartographic applications which are being developed to make effective use of new data that is now being collected by Earth observation satellites. At a time when natural resource development and environmental problems have to be taken into account...

Land cover mapping of the upper Kuskokwim Resource Managment Area using LANDSAT and a digital data base approach Land cover mapping of the upper Kuskokwim Resource Managment Area using LANDSAT and a digital data base approach

Digital land cover and terrain data for the Upper Kuskokwim Resource Hanagement Area (UKRMA) were produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation Systems Field Office, Anchorage, Alaska for the Bureau of Land Management. These and other environmental data, were incorporated into a digital data base to assist in the management and planning of the UKRMA. The digital...
Authors
Carl J. Markon

Toward a Federal Land Information System: Experiences and issues Toward a Federal Land Information System: Experiences and issues

From 1983 to 1987, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted research to develop a national resource data base of Federal lands under the auspices of the Federal Land Information System (FLIS) program. The program's goal was to develop the capability to provide information to national mineral-use policymakers. Prototype spatial data bases containing mineral, land status, and base cartographic...
Authors
James A. Sturdevant

Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge land cover mapping project user's guide Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge land cover mapping project user's guide

Title III of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (ANILCA 1980) established the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge (NNWR). Section 304 of the Act requires the Secretary of Interior to "prepare, and from time to time revise, a comprehensive conservation plan" for the refuge.
Authors
Carl J. Markon

Conversion of Cartesian coordinates from and to Generalized Balanced Ternary addresses Conversion of Cartesian coordinates from and to Generalized Balanced Ternary addresses

Hexagonal grids have several advantages over square grids, such as a greater angular resolution and unambiguous connectivity. The Generalized Balanced Ternary (GBT) system is a spatial addressing method for hexagonal grids in which the hexagons are arranged in hierarchical aggregates, and which accommodates vector operations in GBT space. Efficient algorithms for converting Cartesian...
Authors
Jan W. van Roessel
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