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Reindeer range inventory in western Alaska from computer-aided digital classification of LANDSAT dataAn inventory of reindeer-range resources was conducted for the USDA Soil Conservation Service of 1.6 million hectares of wildlands in western Alaska using clustering techniques with digital Landsat data. Computer-aided digital analysis produced a provisional map of rangeland types which was used to design the field collection of vegetation and soil types data. This field data facilitated refinement of the inventory map and was used to describe the map units. The informational classes important to range resources were wet, moist and alpine tundra, tidal marsh, brush and open spruce forest. A significant feature of the study was the extraction of acreage figures by administrative boundaries within the study area. In addition to soil and vegetation association map products (at scales of 1:250,000 and 1:63,360) acreage values were tallied from the digital data for each of the four grazing permit areas established by the Bureau of Land Management.
Document ID
19780006573
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
George, T. H.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Stringer, W. J.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Baldridge, J. N.
(Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1977
Publication Information
Publication: ERIM Proc. of the 11th Intern. Symp. on Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 1
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
78N14516
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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