Start Date
4-1974 8:00 AM
Description
Many responsible public officials and prominent authorities on land resource planning, decision making, and management have stressed the need for more information about existing land use. To be most useful such information must be timely and it must be kept current. An Earth Resources Technology Satellite can provide such information at a relatively generalized level of presentation on a repetitive basis.
Experiments related to the acquisition of land use data being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have indicated that most of the nine more generalized Level I categories of land use and land cover data can be obtained with sufficient consistency to provide useful data for nationwide planning activities. Both visual interpretation of ERTS-1 imagery and the use of computer compatible tapes have been employed in research projects being carried out in the U.S. Geological Survey and preliminary results are now available.
Further refinements in the use of ERTS-1 data to obtain land use information are needed if such data are to be effectively used in the planning process. Also needed is a better general understanding of what ERTS data can be most appropriately used for among those engaged in national and interstate regional planning activity.
ERTS-1 and Data For National Land Use Planning
Many responsible public officials and prominent authorities on land resource planning, decision making, and management have stressed the need for more information about existing land use. To be most useful such information must be timely and it must be kept current. An Earth Resources Technology Satellite can provide such information at a relatively generalized level of presentation on a repetitive basis.
Experiments related to the acquisition of land use data being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have indicated that most of the nine more generalized Level I categories of land use and land cover data can be obtained with sufficient consistency to provide useful data for nationwide planning activities. Both visual interpretation of ERTS-1 imagery and the use of computer compatible tapes have been employed in research projects being carried out in the U.S. Geological Survey and preliminary results are now available.
Further refinements in the use of ERTS-1 data to obtain land use information are needed if such data are to be effectively used in the planning process. Also needed is a better general understanding of what ERTS data can be most appropriately used for among those engaged in national and interstate regional planning activity.
Comments
Earth Resources Program
Session Chairman: I. S. Haas, General Manager, Earth Observatory Programs, General Electric Company/Space Division
Session Organizer: C. L. Chase, Manager, Industry Communications, General Electric Company/Space Division
No other information or file available for this session.