A Landsat Data Collection Platform at Devil Canyon Site, Upper Susitna Basin, Alaska. Performance and Analysis of Data.

In October 1974, a Landsat Data Collection Platform was installed near the prospective Devil Canyon damsite on the Susitna River, south central Alaska. The development of sensor interfaces and characteristics of transmitted data for air and ground surface temperature, windspeed and wind run, water e...

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Main Authors: Haugen,Richard K, Tuinstra,Ray L, Slaughter,Charles W
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1979
Subjects:
Civil Engineering
*ALASKA
*DAMS
TEMPERATURE
ENVIRONMENTS
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
SEISMIC DATA
SNOW
DATA ACQUISITION
WIND VELOCITY
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION
LAND USE
Landsat
Susitna River
Devil Canyon
LPN-CWIS-3111
Subarctic
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA068508
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA068508
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Summary:In October 1974, a Landsat Data Collection Platform was installed near the prospective Devil Canyon damsite on the Susitna River, south central Alaska. The development of sensor interfaces and characteristics of transmitted data for air and ground surface temperature, windspeed and wind run, water equivalent snow accumulation, and battery voltage are discussed. Temperature data are analyzed statistically and compared with data from surrounding National Weather Service stations. Although some difficulties were encountered in operation during the winter of 1974-75, it was demonstrated that the Landsat data collection system could provide useful environmental data from a remote, subarctic location in the winter on a near-real-time basis. (Author)

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