Earth Resources NASA SP-7041 (48) A Continuing January 1986 Bibliography NASA with Indexes National Aeronautics and Space Administration 5(NASA-SF-704 Eart1 (48)) EAFTH hEESOUBCES :RGSOU A SSm^I CONTINUING BIBLIOGRAPHY HUH INDEXES (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 100 p HC ACS CSCL 05B Onclas 00/43 04041 Earth Resources th Resources Eai i Resources Earth Resources Earth F ^sources Earth Re ACCESSION NUMBER RANGES Accession numbers cited in this Supplement fall within the following ranges. STAR (N-10000 Series) N85-29910 - N85-36162 IAA (A-10000 Series) A85-39961 - A85-50132 This bibliography was prepared by the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility operated for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by RMS Associates. NASASP-7041(48) EARTH RESOURCES A CONTINUING BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEXES Issue 48 A selection of annotated references to unclassified reports and journal articles that were introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system and announced between October 1 and December 31, 1985 in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA). f\|/\CiZ/\ Scientific and Technical Information Branch 1986 I \lf l^f \ National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC This supplement is available as NTISUB/038/093 from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, Virginia 22161 at the price of $14.50 domestic; $29.00 foreign for standing orders. Please note: Standing orders are subscriptions which do not terminate at the end of a year, as do regular subscriptions, but continue indefinitely unless specifically terminated by the subscriber. INTRODUCTION The technical literature described in this continuing bibliography may be helpful to researchers in numerous disciplines such as agriculture and forestry, geography and cartography, geology and mining, oceanography and fishing, environmental control, and many others. Until recently it was impossible for anyone to examine more than a minute fraction of the Earth's surface continuously. Now vast areas can be observed synoptically, and changes noted in both the Earth's lands and waters, by sensing instrumention on orbiting spacecraft or on aircraft. This literature survey lists 326 reports, articles, and other documents announced between October 1 and December 31, 1985 in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR), and International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA). The coverage includes documents related to the identification and evaluation by means of sensors in spacecraft and aircraft of vegetation, minerals, and other natural resources, and the techniques and potentialities of surveying and keeping up-to-date inventories of such riches. It encompasses studies of such natural phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean currents, and magnetic fields; and such cultural phenomena as cities, transportation networks, and irrigation systems. Descriptions of the components and use of remote sensing and geophysical instrumentation, their subsystems, observational procedures, signature and analyses and interpretive techniques for gathering data are also included. All reports generated under NASA's Earth Resources Survey Program for the time period covered in this bibliography will also be included. The bibliography does not contain citations to documents dealing mainly with satellites or satellite equipment used in navigation or communication systems, nor with instrumentation not used aboard aerospace vehicles. The selected items are grouped in nine categories These are listed in the Table of Contents with notes regarding the scope of each category. These categories were especially chosen for this publication, and differ from those found in STAR and IAA. Each entry consists of a standard bibliographic citation accompanied by an abstract. The citations include the original accession numbers from the respective announcement journals. Under each of the nine categories, the entries are presented in one of two groups that appear in the following order: IAA entries identified by accession number series A85-10.000 in ascending accession number order; STAR entries identified by accession number series N85-10.000 in ascending accession number order. After the abstract section, there are seven indexes: subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report/ accession number, and accession number. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Category 01 Agriculture and Forestry 1 Includes crop forecasts, crop signature analysis, soil identification, disease detection, harvest estimates, range resources, timber inventory, forest fire detection, and wildlife migration patterns. Category 02 Environmental Changes and Cultural Resources 6 Includes land use analysis, urban and metropolitan studies, environmental impact, air and water pollution, geographic information systems, and geographic analysis. Category 03 Geodesy and Cartography 7 Includes mapping and topography. Category 04 Geology and Mineral Resources 14 Includes mineral deposits, petroleum deposits, spectral properties of rocks, geological exploration, and hthology. Category 05 Oceanography and Marine Resources 24 Includes sea-surface temperature, ocean bottom surveying imagery, drift rates, sea ice and icebergs, sea state, fish location Category 06 Hydrology and Water Management 35 Includes snow cover and water runoff in rivers and glaciers, saline intrusion, drainage analysis, geomorphology of river basins, land uses, and estuarme studies. Category 07 Data Processing and Distribution Systems 37 Includes film processing, computer technology, satellite and aircraft hardware, and imagery. Category 08 Instrumentation and Sensors 42 Includes data acquisition and camera systems and remote sensors. Category 09 General 49 Includes economic analysis. Subject Index A-1 Personal Author Index B-1 Corporate Source Index C-1 Foreign Technology Index D-1 Contract Number Index E-1 Report/Accession Number Index F-1 Accession Number Index G-1 Preceding Page Blank EARTH RESOURCES A Continuing Bibliography (Issue 48) JANUARY 1986 01 A85-42650 VEGETATION PROFILES FROM COLOR-INFRARED AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY AIRPHOTOS W. D. HUDSON (Michigan State University, East Lansing) Michigan Academician (ISSN 0026-2005), vol. 16, Spring 1984, p. 301-313 Includes crop forecasts, crop signature analysis, soil identification, refs disease detection, harvest estimates, range resources, timber inventry, forest fire detection, and wildlife migration patterns Attention is given to a method for the construction of vegetation profiles by means of color-IR aerial photography, together with such collateral material as topographic maps and soil surveys A85-41350 This procedure was tested by running a transect through Antrim, Otsego, and Montgomery Counties in the northern lower peninsula THE CONTRIBUTION OF SPOT IMAGES TO SOIL MAPPING - of Michigan. An analysis was then conducted of the A SPOT SIMULATION STUDY ON LAURAGAIS (1981) physiographic-vegetation relationships along the transect, in order [CONTRIBUTION DES IMAGES SPOT A LA CARTOGRAPHIE DUE SOL - ETUDE DE SIMULATIONS SPOT SUR LE to determine the usefulness of the remote sensing profile technique LAURAGAIS/1981/] for vegetation distribution studies over large areas. It is concluded that the greatest utility of the method may lie in the location of L GUYOT and J -P. POUPARD (Institut Geographique National, specific sites in biogeographical studies O.C Departement de Teledetection, Saint-Mande, France) Societe Francaise de Photogrammetne et de Teledetection (ISSN 0244-6014), no. 97, 1985, p. 19-40 In French, refs A85-42865* Purdue Univ , West Lafayette, Ind A thematic simulation was made of projected soil mapping SPECULAR, DIFFUSE, AND POLARIZED LIGHT SCATTERED BY TWO WHEAT CANOPIES scans with the SPOT instruments under development. The study was targeted at testing the usefulness of SPOT imagery for V. C. VANDERBILT, L GRANT, L. L BIEHL, and B F ROBINSON (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN) Applied Optics (ISSN classifying land usage, e.g., agriculture, forests, prairies, etc The 0003-6935), vol 24, Aug. 1, 1985, p 2408-2418. refs study was extended to multitemporal images. Sample images were (Contract NAG5-269; NAS9-14970) collected using airborne instrumentation to radiometrically scan a 9 km long scene from 6 km altitude with a scan path 35 deg on Using polarization measurements, the reflectance factor of two either side of the vertical. Attention was given to the effects of wheat canopies is divided into components due to specularly and diffusely reflected light The data show that two key angles may the view angle, the level of scene illumination, and directional reflectivity. Various previously identified agricultural crops were be predicted, the angle of the polarizer for minimum flux and the scanned in different growth stages. Successful classifications were angle of incidence of sunlight specularly reflected by a leaf to a sensor The results show that specular reflection is a key aspect achieved only with multiple images, at specific times of the year, and by trained personnel who were familiar with the airborne to radiation transfer by two canopies Results suggest that the imagery. M.S.K. advent of heading in wheat may be remotely sensed from polarization measurements of the canopy reflectance Author A85-43114* National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTOR DISTRIBUTIONS FOR COVER TYPES OF NORTHERN AFRICA D. S.