NASA NTRS · 19850045795
Thematic mapper data analysis
Abstract
The geological applications of remote sensing technology are discussed, with emphasis given to the analysis of data from the Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument onboard the Landsat 4 satellite. The flight history and design characteristics of the Landsat 4/TM are reviewed, and some difficulties endountered in the interpretation of raw TM data are discussed, including: the volume of data; residual noise; detector-to-detector striping; and spatial misregistration between measurements. Preliminary results of several geological, lithological, geobotanical mapping experiments are presented as examples of the geological applications of the TM, and some areas for improving the guality of TM imagery are identified.
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Settle, M., Chavez, P., Kieffer, H. H., Everett, J. R., Kahle, A. B., Kitcho, C. A., Milton, N. M., Mouat, D. A.. 1983-01-01. Thematic mapper data analysis. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19850045795
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