Tenth International Symposium
on
Machine Processing
of Remotely Sensed Data

with special emphasis on

Thematic Mapper Data and
Geographic Information Systems

The Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA

June 12-14, 1984

Edited by M.M. Klepfer and D.B. Morrison

Copyright © 1984
by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907. All Rights Reserved.
These papers are provided for personal educational use only,
under permission from Purdue Research Foundation.

CATALOG NUMBERS

IEEE CATALOG NUMBER 84 CH 2025-5 MPRSD
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG NUMBER 84-80223
ISBN CATALOG NUMBER ISBN 0-931682-17-7

PREFACE

Remote sensing is continually rising to new levels of sophistication and application throughout the world. The need for advances in this field is evident because the world is experiencing major environmental and resource problems. Degradation of environment and improper and inefficient use and distribution of resources continues to cause human distress on a global scale. Acquisition, storage, management and analysis of data relevant to solution of these problems which impact human progress are elements in which the remote sensing community has expertise and vital interest. This technical community has a great opportunity to aid in improving many world conditions through applications of remote sensing.

New sensors with features such as improved spectral and spatial resolution, greater variety of spectral bands, and more efficient data transmission/receiving characteristics are increasing the capability to provide data which, when analyzed, can provide information required to redress important world problems. Vast new quantities of information developed through remote sensing frequently are combined with other information sets and analyzed in combination using computer techniques. This approach promises not only to expand the need for more remote sensing-derived information, but to greatly improve the ability of such information to have impact on the solution of many world problems.

This symposium is fortunate to have authors from many parts of the world present papers which provide insight into improved methods of developing information through remote sensing and better applying this information developed by using geographic information systmes (GIS). One symposium emphasis is on Thematic Mapper (TM) data, which is a representative of newer, and in many ways improved, data for earth resource analysis. A second symposium theme is on the GIS which is a vital link between remote sensing developed information and its applications. The TM as well as other remotely sensed data, when effectively processed and analyzed using techniques such as those presented in papers throughout this symposium, provide a plethora of information. This information often can best be applied when it is analyzed in conjunction with other sets of information within an effective GIS. Thus, this symposium collectively emphasizes the utility and integration of new sources of remotely sensed data, along with the old within an applications context that increasingly needs to incorporate GIS approaches.

No symposium can be successful without the support of many unselfish interested people and organizations whose time, energy and cooperation is so essential in bringing such a conference to fruition. It is with grateful thanks to the cosponsors, the session chairpersons, the symposium committee and the authors that the chairmen express their gratitude. A special word of thanks is extended to those who have been intimately involved in the preparation of these proceedings; namely Marilynn M. Klepfer, Susan L. Ferringer, Glenda C. Bauer and the symposium coordinator, Douglas B. Morrison.

Paul W. Mausel, Co-Chairman
Paul E. Anuta, Co-Chairman
1984 Symposium

Symposium Co-Chairmen

Paul E. Anuta

Paul E. Anuta is Associate Program Leader for Data Handling Research at the Laboratory for Applictions of Remote Sensing (LARS) at Purdue University. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue Universiy in 1957, M.S.E.E. from the University of Connecticut in 1962, M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue in 1967, and is a doctoral candidate at Purdue. Mr. Anuta joined the LARS staff in 1967 and has researched data handling systems for a multispectral aircraft scanner system, interferometer spectrometer, and other sensors. He is responsible for research and evaluation of remote sensor data preprocessing techniques. Key data handling research areas are image registration, geometric correction, and resolution enhancement of satellite multispectral imagery. His current interests are in the area of multitype data integration and preprocessing and analysis methods. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Society of Photogrammetry.

Paul W. Mausel

Dr. Paul W. Mausel is a professor of geography and director of the ISU Remote Sensing Laboratory (ISURSL) at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a B.A. (geography and chemistry) and an M.A. (geography) from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. (geography) from the University of North Carolina. Post graduate work in remote sensing has been conducted at LARS/Purdue University and the ITC/The Netherlands. He has published more than 50 articles and has five chapters in books in his area of expertise which focuses on remote sensing applications in land use, technology transfer and soils. Development and evaluation of non-parametric approaches to multispectral analysis has been a major interest of Dr. Mausel and numerous ISURSL colleagues. He has served two years as national chairperson of the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

SPONSORSHIP

Cosponsors:
     American Society of Agronomy
     Crop Science Society of America
     Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers, Inc.
            Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
     Society of American Foresters
     Soil Science Society of America

In Cooperation with:
     American Society of Photogrammetry
     Association of American Geographers
     National Aeronautics And Space Administration
     National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
     U.S. Department of Agriculture

Symposium Program Committee

Paul E. Anuta, Co-Chairman
Paul W. Mausel, Co-Chairman
Luis A. Bartolucci
Marion F. Baumgardner
Douglas B. Morrison
Terry L. Phillips

Session Chairmen

Paul E. Anuta
Anthony R. Barringer
Marion F. Baumgardner
Jeff Dozier
John E. Estes
Samuel N. Goward
John R. Jensen
Richard S. Latty
Kamlesh Lulla
R. B. MacDonald
William A. Malila
Paul W. Mausel
Douglas B. Morrison

Other symposium proceedings pages not included in the papers below.

TABLE OF CONTENTS