LANDSAT data as a basis for regional environmental assessment within the Columbia Plateau

Conference · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:5325587

Leonhart, L S; Stephan, J G

LANDSAT data are being used to assist in classifying land cover for the purpose of providing regional environmental assessments of a 105,000 km/sup 2/ area within the Columbia Plateau region of the northwestern United States. The environmental assessment is being performed in conjunction with siting a radioactive waste terminal-storage facility within the federally operated Hanford Site in south-central Washington. Initial assessments involved classification of four contiguous LANDSAT scenes recorded over the region during the summer of 1975 and about 300 1978 high-altitude (U-2) photographs. The resulting mosaic was segregated into ten land-cover classes. The classified land-cover data were then machine-integrated with digital irrigation well-location data taken from the US Geological Survey's Ground-Water Site Inventory. The resulting groundwater multi-source data product was required by hydrologists to segregate potential artificial recharge areas from artificial groundwater discharge areas. Related studies have employed LANDSAT data and aerial imagery to identify linear structures and other geologic features which may have a significant bearing on the tectonic and/or hydrologic setting of the Columbia Plateau. Future plans call for attempts to correlate land-cover patterns with other physical and environmental parameters such as digital terrain and hydrometeorological data.

• Research Organization: Atomics International Div., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations; Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 5325587
• Report Number(s): RHO-BWI-SA-43; CONF-800577-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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