CSR Remote Sensing of the Environment

CSR Receiving Station
-AVHRR
-SeaWiFS

Multispectral and
Hyperspectral
+Kennedy Space Center
+Rio Grande Valley
+Great Victoria Desert
-Chora of Chersonesos
  -Area Description
  +Excavation Sites
  -RS Data
   -IRS
   -CORONA
   -LANDSAT
   -SIR-C/X-SAR
   -ERS

Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR)

Multisensor Fusion

LIDAR

INSAR

Landsat TM

The spatial resolution of Landsat TM imagery is relatively coarse (30m for bands 1-5 and 7, 120m for band 6) for the detection of archaeological features, but its high spectral resolution (3 visible bands, three infrared, and one thermal) is useful for the creation of land use maps covering the entire peninsula.

Initial results from the classifications of two TM scenes acquired over the peninsula in July 1988 and August 1992 have shown a dramatic increase in the urban land cover (represented by yellow in the classified images below) in the four short years which separate the two images. Urban expansion has been particularly rapid in the area directly surrounding the Hellenistic farm site, known as Site 151, excavated by the UT Institute of Classical Archaeology and an international team of researchers.

LANDSAT MSS

One Landsat MSS scene was acquired from June 1975. Although the resolution for the imagery from the earlier Landsat MSS missions is much coarser (79m) than that of Landsat TM, the earlier imagery is useful for the detection of large scale patterns such as change in land cover and coastal erosion.

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Last Modified: Wed Apr 14, 1999
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