Multi-Resolution Image Analysis for Environmental Mapping
Kennedy Space Center Year 1 Progress Report

Center for Space Research
University of Texas at Austin

August 1996


Prepared by:
Melba M. Crawford
Amy L. Neuenschwander
Michael R. Ricard

I. OVERVIEW OF KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PROJECT YEAR 1

II. DATABASE PREPARATION
A. Database Description

1. Remote Sensing Data
2. GIS Layers
3. GPS Data
B. Registration
1. Satellite Data
2. Airborne Data
C. Radiometric Correction

III. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF DATABASE
A. Evaluation of Remotely Sensed Data Sources

1. Landsat-TM - April 1987, April 1989
2. SPOT Multispectral and Panchromatic - November 1991
3. SIR-C - October 1994
4. CAMS - June 1993
B. Vegetation Discrimination

IV. SPECTRAL BAND STATISTICS

V. PRE-PROCESSING OF DATA CLASSIFICATION
A. Determination of Inputs

1. Band Correlation
2. Band Transformation
B. Class Selection
C. Training Site Statistics
1. TM and Spot Bands
2. Principal Components

VI. LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION RESULTS
A. Unsupervised Clustering - Isodata
B. Maximum Likelihood Classifier
C. Neural Networks

VII. FURTHER STUDY
A. Improvement of Data Pre-Processing
B. Classification
C. Application of Post-Processing Techniques
D. Change Detection
E. Incorporation of Other Data Sets

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