Upper Midwest Gap Analysis Program, Image Processing Protocol

Abstract

This document presents a series of technical guidelines by which land cover information is being extracted from Landsat Thematic Mapper data as part of the Upper Midwest Gap Analysis Program (UMGAP). The UMGAP represents a regionally coordinated implementation of the national Gap Analysis Program in the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; the program is led by the U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Management Technical Center. The protocol describes both the underlying philosophy and the operational details of the land cover classification activities being performed as part of UMGAP. Topics discussed include the hierarchical classification scheme, ground reference data acquisition, image stratification, and classification techniques. This discussion is primarily aimed at the image processing analysts involved in the UMGAP land cover mapping activities as well as others involved in similar projects. It is a how to technical guide for a relatively narrow audience, namely those individuals responsible for the image processing aspects of UMGAP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA349722

Entities

People

  • David Nagel
  • Heather Reese
  • Jonathan Chipman
  • Matthew Bobo
  • Thomas Lillesand

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Environmental Management
  • Forests
  • Gap Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geography
  • Geological Surveys
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Photography
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surveys
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.