The use of aerial photographs in county inventories of waste-disposal sites

Journal Article · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing; (United States)

OSTI ID:5811196

Barnaba, E M; Philipson, W R; Ingram, A W; Pim, J ^[1]

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1. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA) Suffolk County, Dept. of Health Services, Farmingville, NY (USA)

Over the past 15 years, various studies have documented the value of remote sensing for inventorying and assessing waste-disposal sites. Most of these efforts have concentrated on specific sites. This paper reviews and illustrates a procedure that can be applied in performing comprehensive inventories of known and unknown, active and inactive, waste-disposal sites over county-size areas. The steps described include pre-survey activities, evaluation and acquisition of aerial photographs, development of the classification system, public information surveys, airphoto analysis, site georeferencing, site prioritization and follow-up airphoto analysis, and implementation of a monitoring program. Although not a case-study report, the paper focuses on Suffolk County, N.Y., where multidate, historic aerial photographs were analyzed in conjunction with field and citizen surveys to detect and categorize hundreds of previously unidentified sites for remedial action. 20 refs.

• OSTI ID: 5811196
• Journal Information: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing; (United States), Vol. 57; Other Information: PERSD; ISSN 0099-1112
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
WASTE DISPOSAL
NEW YORK
SANITARY LANDFILLS
INVENTORIES
AERIAL MONITORING
PHOTOGRAPHY
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOTE SENSING
SITE SURVEYS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
FEDERAL REGION II
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MONITORING
NORTH AMERICA
USA
WASTE MANAGEMENT
540250* - Environment
Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)