NASA SP-7041 (53) Earth Resources May 1987 A Continuing Bibli_graph%_ I/ .SA with indexes = National Aeronautics and Space Administration oo/a 3 ACCESSION NUMBER RANGES Accession numbers cited in this Supplement fall within the following ranges. STAR (N-10000 Series) N87-10001 -- N87-15159 IAA (A-10000 Series) A87-10001 -- A87-19610 This supplement is available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, Vir- ginia 22161, price code A08. NASA SP-7041(53) EARTH RESOURCES A CONTINUING BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEXES Issue 53 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 January 1 and March 31, 1987 in • Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) • International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) Scientific and Technical Information Office 1987 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC i / / This bibliography was prepared by the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility operated for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by RMS Associates. INTRODUCTION The technical literature described in this continuing bibliography may be helpful to re- searchers 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 instrumentation on orbiting spacecraft or on aircraft. This literature survey lists 604 reports, articles, and other documents announced between January 1 and March 31, 1987 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 in- terpretive techiques for gathering data are also included. All reports generated under NASA's Earth Resources Survey Program for the time period covered in this bibliography are also 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 A87-10,000 in ascending accession number order; STAR entries identified by accession number series N87-10,000 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 de- tection, harvest estimates, range resources, timber inventory, forest fire detec- tion, and wildlife migration patterns. Category 02 Environmental Changes and Cultural Resources 19 Includes land use analysis, urban and metropolitan studies, environmental im- pact, air and water pollution, geographic information systems, and geographic analysis. Category 03 Geodesy and Cartography 23 Includes mapping and topography. Category 04 Geology and Mineral Resources 25 Includes mineral deposits, petroleum deposits, spectral properties of rocks, geological exploration, and lithology. Category 05 Oceanography and Marine Resources 33 Includes sea-surface temperature, ocean bottom surveying imagery, drift rates, sea ice and icebergs, sea state, fish location. Category 06 Hydrology and Water Management Includes snow cover and water runoff in rivers and glaciers, saline intrusion, drainage analysis, geomorphology of river basins, land uses, and estuarine studies. Category 07 Data Processing and Distribution Systems 55 Includes film processing, computer technology, satellite and aircraft hardware, and imagery. Category 08 Instrumentation and Sensors 65 Includes data acquisition and camera systems and remote sensors. Category 09 General 83 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 Number Index .......................................................................................................... F-1 Accession Number Index .................................................................................................... G-1 PA__INTEN_i_tALLV BLANK TYPICAL REPORT CITATION AND ABSTRACT NASA SPONSORED FON MICROFICHE ACCESSION NUMBER N87-13900"# 'Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Dept. -,_-I---CORPORAT E SOURCE of Meteorology. TITLE ANALYSIS OF THE INFLOW AND AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS IN HURRICANE FREDERIC (1979) Final Report AUTHORS • J. KAPLAN and W. M. FRANK Dec. 1986 119 p CONTRACT NUMBER _ (Contract NAG5-398) w... PUBLICATION DATE REPORT NUMBERS---------_ (NASA-CR-180014; NAS 1.26:180014) Avail: NTIS HC A06/MF -.,_-_-AVAILABILITY SOURCE __._n CSCLunusually55C large amount of aircraft, rawinsonde, satellite, COSATI CODE ship and buoy data from hurricane Frederic (1979) are composited over a 40 hr period. These are combined with Frank's (1984) analysis of Frederic's core and Powell's (1982) surface wind analysis to analyze Frederic's three dimensional low level structure between the storm center and a radius of 10 dog. latitude. The analysis is improved significantly by determining the levels at which low level cloud motion winds (CMW's) are in the best agreement with verification wind data and then adjusting the winds to uniform analysis levels. Due to the unusually good low level wind resolution afforded by this data set, it is possible to obtain kinematically derived fields of vorticity, divergence and vertical velocity. These analyses are observed to be internally consistent and should prove useful for future analysis. Analysis of Frederic's surface to 560 m angular momentum budget beyond 2 dog. radius indicates that •surface drag coefficients increase slightly with increasing radius and decreasing wind speed. Estimates of storm rainfall obtained by performing a moisture budget between the surface and the top of the inflow layer show that most storm rainfall falls inside about 4 dog. radius and that substantial underestimation of storm rainfall occurs when all low level CMW's are assigned to 560 m. Author TYPICAL JOURNAL ARTICLE CITATION AND ABSTRACT NASA SPONSORED --- ON MICROFICHE ACCESSION NUMBER_A87-14176*# National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. TITLE._-_VARIABILITY OF EARTH-EMITTED RADIATION FROM ONE YEAR OF NIMBUS-6 ERB DATA AUTHOR-_-----_T. D. BESS (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA) - AUTHOR'S AFFILIATION JOURNAL TITLE._._.----_Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (ISSN 0022-4928), vol. 43, July 15, 1986, p. 1445-1453. refs Outgoing Iongwave radiation (OLR) measurements from the Nimbus-6 ERB wide field-of-view instrument are used to study daytime and nighttime radiation variability on a 15 dog regional, zonal, and global scale. An analysis of components o1 variance is used to determine how much of the total variability is due to between-region and within-region variance. Most of the analysis is on July and January data from one year of Nimbus-6 ERB. Different geographical scales are considered: regions within latitude zones and latitude zones within hemispheres. Results show that much of the variability is spatial, peaks in the tropics and subtropics, and is concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere. Daytime variability is generally larger than nighttime variability for July but not for January. Variance in OLR in the tropics and subtropics is largely a function of cloud variability. Author vi EARTH RESOURCES A Continuing Bibliography (Issue