Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data

An inventory of reindeer-range resources was conducted for the USDA Soil Conservation Service of 1.6 million hectares of wildlands in western Alaska using clustering techniques with digital Landsat data. Computer-aided digital analysis produced a provisional map of rangeland types which was used to...

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Main Authors: George, T. H., Stringer, W. J., Baldridge, J. N.
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Published: 1977
Subjects:
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Tundra
Alaska
Online Access:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780006573
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spelling ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19780006573 2023-05-15T18:40:23+02:00 Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data George, T. H. Stringer, W. J. Baldridge, J. N. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available JAN 1, 1977 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780006573 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19780006573 Accession ID: 78N14516 No Copyright CASI 43 ERIM Proc. of the 11th Intern. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 1; p 671-682 1977 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T13:17:11Z An inventory of reindeer-range resources was conducted for the USDA Soil Conservation Service of 1.6 million hectares of wildlands in western Alaska using clustering techniques with digital Landsat data. Computer-aided digital analysis produced a provisional map of rangeland types which was used to design the field collection of vegetation and soil types data. This field data facilitated refinement of the inventory map and was used to describe the map units. The informational classes important to range resources were wet, moist and alpine tundra, tidal marsh, brush and open spruce forest. A significant feature of the study was the extraction of acreage figures by administrative boundaries within the study area. In addition to soil and vegetation association map products (at scales of 1:250,000 and 1:63,360) acreage values were tallied from the digital data for each of the four grazing permit areas established by the Bureau of Land Management. Other/Unknown Material Tundra Alaska NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
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Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
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description An inventory of reindeer-range resources was conducted for the USDA Soil Conservation Service of 1.6 million hectares of wildlands in western Alaska using clustering techniques with digital Landsat data. Computer-aided digital analysis produced a provisional map of rangeland types which was used to design the field collection of vegetation and soil types data. This field data facilitated refinement of the inventory map and was used to describe the map units. The informational classes important to range resources were wet, moist and alpine tundra, tidal marsh, brush and open spruce forest. A significant feature of the study was the extraction of acreage figures by administrative boundaries within the study area. In addition to soil and vegetation association map products (at scales of 1:250,000 and 1:63,360) acreage values were tallied from the digital data for each of the four grazing permit areas established by the Bureau of Land Management.
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author George, T. H.
Stringer, W. J.
Baldridge, J. N.
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Stringer, W. J.
Baldridge, J. N.
author_sort George, T. H.
title Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
title_short Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
title_full Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
title_fullStr Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
title_full_unstemmed Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT data
title_sort reindeer range inventory in western alaska from computer-aided digital classification of landsat data
publishDate 1977
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Alaska
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Alaska
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