Feasibility of Monitoring Flow Patterns and Sediment and Pollutant Dispersion of Water Bodies with 24-Channel Spectral Data.

Abstract

The primary objective of this research effort was to develop data-handling procedures to transform digital data collected by a Bendix 24-channel airborne sensor into radiance values and to produce images free of skew and reflectance geometry distortion. Data collected over the Chesapeake Bay area on 26 October 1972 and 22 April 1973 at approximately 3200 m and later recorded on computer-compatible tapes (CCT) were studied. Special attention was focused on data from the Rappahannock River. The scanner system, including the mechanics, optics, and electronics, is described with an explanation of data formatting on the NASA-generated CCT and the formatting required by existing U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) computer software and programs to handle remotely sensed data, specifically ERTS or LANDSAT CCT data.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA025333

Entities

People

  • Margaret H. Smith

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Bays
  • Chesapeake Bay
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Data
  • Dispersions
  • Distortion
  • Electronics
  • Engineers
  • Geometry
  • Mechanics
  • Monitoring
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Radiance
  • Reflectance

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics