GIS Archived Reports

Title	File Size
1977 Kings County, California Real Time LANDSAT Crop Acreage Estimation Project	128 KB
1980 AgRISTARS DCLC Project Summary Crop Area Estimates for Kansas and Iowa	622 KB
1980 Kansas Land Cover Enumerator Manual	712 KB
1981 AgRISTARS DCLC Four State Project	577 KB
1982 Results for the California Cooperative Remote Sensing Project	1436 KB
1983 Missouri Crop and Landcover Study	1784 KB
A Continuing Development of an Application for Landsat Data 1983 DCLC Winter Wheat Acreage Estimates for Four States	764 KB
A Correlation Analysis of Percent Canopy Closure vs. TMS Spectral Response for Selected Forest Sites in the San Juan National Forest, Colorado	1064 KB
A Guide to Area Sampling Frame Construction Utilizing Satellite Imagery	1034 KB
A Look at the Remote Sensing Applications Program of the National Agricultural Statistics Service	951 KB
A Multichannel Image Data Handling Systems for Agriculture Remote Sensing	1203 KB
A New Approach to Small Area Crop-Acreage Estimation	556 KB
A New Option for CLUST Allowing Retrieval of an Optimal Statistical File	93 KB
A System Guide to Editor	1847 KB
A Texture-Enhancement Procedure for Separating Orchard from Forest in Thematic Mapper Data	234 KB
AVHRR Map Products for Crop Condition Assessment A Geographic Information Systems Approach	503 KB
Advances in Estimating Crop Yield Through Combined Remote Sensing and Growth Modeling	577 KB
Aerospace Remote Sensing Research Results	436 KB
Aerospace Remote Sensing for Domestic Crop Area Estimation by the United States Department of Agriculture	961 KB
AgRISTARS Annual Report (FY 1981)	4477 KB
AgRISTARS Annual Report (FY 1982)	4107 KB
AgRISTARS Annual Report (FY 1983) (Pages 1-100)	5217 KB
AgRISTARS Annual Report (FY 1983) (Pages 101-22)	1680 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Applications Project 1982 Corn and Soybeans Area Estimates for Iowa and Illinois	744 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Applications Project 1982 Winter Wheat Area Estimates for Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma	301 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Implementation Plan (for FY 81 and 82) (Pages 1-100)	2878 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Implementation Plan (for FY 81 and 82) (Pages 101-05)	134 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Implementation Plan (for FY 82 and 83) (Pages 1-100)	3247 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Implementation Plan (for FY 82 and 83) (Pages 101-07)	199 KB
AgRISTARS DCLC Implementation Plan	2661 KB
AgRISTARS Data Management Plan I	210 KB
AgRISTARS Technical Program Plan (Pages 1-100)	3547 KB
AgRISTARS Technical Program Plan (Pages 101-44)	1318 KB
Agricultural Crop Acreage Estimates for Small Land Areas Using LANDSAT – What is the Information Worth	541 KB
Agricultural Statistics Board AVHRR and GIS Product Development	858 KB
Agricultural and Resource Assessment in Jamaica Using an Area Sampling Frame	318 KB
Agricultural and Resource Inventory Surveys Through Aerospace Remote Sensing	3784 KB
Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing	2244 KB
An Algorithm for Automating the Registration of USDA Segment Ground Data to Landsat MSS Data	1426 KB
An Analysis of Landsat MSS Scene-to-Scene Registration Accuracy	362 KB
An Autodigitizing Procedure for Ground-Data Labeling of LANDSAT Pixels	256 KB
An Evaluation of Aerial Photography as a Quality Control Measure of the June Enumerative Survey	2219 KB
An Evaluation of MSS P-Format Data Registration	1991 KB
An Evaluation of Remote Sensing Data for Estimating Livestock Inventories (Pages 1-100)	3504 KB
An Evaluation of Remote Sensing Data for Estimating Livestock Inventories (Pages 101-21)	937 KB
An Evaluation of the First Four Landsat-D Sensors for Monitoring Vegetation A Comparison with Other Satellite Sensor Systems	1587 KB
An Evaluation of the Ratio and Difference AVHRR Images Examples Developed from 1992 and 1991 AVHRR Data	551 KB
An Exploration Study on the Effects of Field Size and Field Boundary Pixels on Crop Spectral Signatures	1007 KB
An Image Analysis System to Develop Area Sampling Frames for Agricultural Surveys	870 KB
An Interactive System for Agricultural Acreage Estimates Using Landsat Data	897 KB
Analysis Results for North Central Illinois LANDSAT Scene C1A	418 KB
Analysis of Data Acquired by Synthetic Aperture Radar and Landsat Multispectral Scanner over Kershaw County, South Carolina, During the Summer Season	1748 KB
Analysis of Data Acquired by Synthetic Aperture Radar over Dade County, Florida, and Acadia Parish, Louisiana	1240 KB
Analysis of Landsat for Monitoring Vegetables in New York Mucklands	543 KB
Analysis of Man-induced and Natural Resources of an Arid Region in California	1810 KB
Analysis of Thematic Mapper Simulation Data Acquired During Winter Season over Pearl River, MS, Test Site	2035 KB
Application of Remote Sensing for Rice United States Experience	530 KB
Application of Satellite Data to Crop Area Estimation at the County Level	1537 KB
Application of Satellite Data to the Crop Area Estimation at the County Level	410 KB
Applications of Advanced Technology for Agricultural Statistics	416 KB
Applications of Remote Sensing	1071 KB
Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing for U.S. Crop Acreage Estimation, 1980-81 Results	691 KB
Area Estimates by LANDSAT Arizona 1979	714 KB
Area Estimates by LANDSAT Kansas 1976 Winter Wheat	423 KB
Area Estimates by LANDSAT Kansas 1976 Winter Wheat2	2358 KB
Area Frame Design for Agricultural Surveys	3611 KB
Area Frame Sampling in Agriculture	406 KB
Area Sampling Frame Construction for an Agriculture Information System with LANDSAT-II Data	236 KB
Area Sampling Frames for Agriculture in Developing Countries	1429 KB
Automatic Identification and Classification of Wheat by Remote Sensing	694 KB
Automatic Segment Matching Algorithm Theory Test and Evaluation	1261 KB
Automatic Segment Shifter Studies	489 KB
Automating the Development of Area Sampling Frames Using Digital Data Displayed on a Graphics Workstation	897 KB
Automating the Development of Area Sampling Frames Using Digital Data Displayed on a Graphics Workstation2	899 KB
Auxiliary Use of Landsat Data in Estimating Crop Acreages Results of the 1975 Illinois Crop-Acreage Experiment	2902 KB
Auxiliary Use of Landsat Data in Estimating Crop Yields	1876 KB
CLASSY – An Adaptive Maximum-Likelihood Clustering Algorithm	1063 KB
California Cooperative Remote Sensing Project (Implementation Plan – FY85)	505 KB
Classification and Area Estimation of Land Cover in Kansas Using Ground–Gathered and Landsat Digital Data	462 KB
Classifier Study (Draft)	969 KB
Comparison of Auxiliary Variables for Satellite-Data Regression Estimators in Crop Surveys	454 KB
Comparison of Sensors for Corn and Soybean Planted Area Estimation	427 KB
Comparison of Vegetation Indices Based on Satellite-Acquired Spectral Data	765 KB
Comparisons of Sensors for Corn and Soybean Planted Area Estimation	1174 KB
Compiling and Editing Area Sampling Frames Using Digital Data for Land Use Analysis and Boundary Definition	1089 KB
Computer-Aided Boundary Delineation of Agricultural Lands	1443 KB
Conclusion of 1987 NASS Conference the Challenge of Change – General Observations	466 KB
Construction of a Remotely Sensed Area Sampling Frame for Southern Brazil	1766 KB
Contributions of Automatic Crop Surveys to Agricultural Development	1101 KB
County Estimation of Crop Acreage Using Satellite Data	1081 KB
Crop Area Estimates Using Ground-Gathered and LANDSAT Data A Multitemporal Approach; Missouri 1979	699 KB
Crop Area Estimates Using LANDSAT and Point Sampling Survey Data (1)	563 KB
Crop Area Estimates from LANDSAT and Ground Survey Data	544 KB
Crop Area Estimates from Landsat Transition from Research and Development to Timely Results	688 KB
Crop Area Estimation Using Ground-Gathered and Sampled LANDSAT Data	467 KB
Crop Identification & Acreage Measurement Utilizing ERTS Imagery	1011 KB
Crop Identification and Acreage Measurement Utilizing ERTS Imagery	372 KB
Crop Identification and Acreage Measurement Utilizing Landsat Imagery (Pages 1-100)	3680 KB
Crop Identification and Acreage Measurement Utilizing Landsat Imagery (Pages 101-200)	3419 KB
Crop Identification and Acreage Measurement Utilizing Landsat Imagery (Pages 201-04)	117 KB
Crop Identification and Area Estimation over Large Geographic Areas Using LANDSAT MSS Data (Pages 1-100)	3446 KB
Crop Identification and Area Estimation over Large Geographic Areas Using LANDSAT MSS Data (Pages 101-74)	2187 KB
Crop Monitoring in Morocco Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems From a Management Perspective	584 KB
Crop Reporting by Satellite	697 KB
Crop-Area Estimates from Landsat Transition from Research and Development to Timely Results	587 KB
Detecting and Monitoring Agricultural Vegetative Water Stress over Large Areas Using Landsat Digital Data	717 KB
Diagnostic Statistics Generated for the Segment Totals Table	160 KB
Economic Factors in Implementation of Remote Sensing into Agricultural Information Systems	693 KB
Effects of Non-Response Including Cloud Cover on Aggregation of Wheat Area in the U.S. Great Plains	1081 KB
Engineering Analysis of Crop Inventory Through Remote Sensing	547 KB
Error Estimation from Three Measurement Vectors	342 KB
Estimating Potatoes and Other Crops in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota Using 1980 LANDSAT Imagery	626 KB
Estimation of Agricultural Productions by Small Surveys, The U.S. Experience	1006 KB
Estimation of County Crop Acreages Using LANSAT Data as Auxiliary Information	813 KB
Evaluating TM Data for SRS Crop Acreage and Production Estimates	2715 KB
Evaluation of Clustering Techniques for Crop Area Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Data	433 KB
Evaluation of Large Area Crop Estimation Techniques Using Landsat and Ground-Derived Data (Pages 1-100)	2859 KB
Evaluation of Large Area Crop Estimation Techniques Using Landsat and Ground-Derived Data (Pages 101-36)	914 KB
Evaluation of Multiband, Multitemporal, and Transformed Landsat MSS Data for Land Cover Area Estimation	787 KB
Evaluation of Small Area Crop Estimation Techniques Using Landsat and Ground-Derived Data (Pages 1-100)	3033 KB
Evaluation of Small Area Crop Estimation Techniques Using Landsat and Ground-Derived Data (Pages 101-44)	2428 KB
Evaluation of USDA Large Area Crop Estimation Techniques	655 KB
Evolution of Land Cover Definitions and Survey for the Economics and Statistics Service	567 KB
Experience with the Use of Supercomputers to Process Landsat Data	436 KB
Feasibility of Assessing Crop Condition and Yield from Landsat Data (Pages 1-100)	2908 KB
Feasibility of Assessing Crop Condition and Yield from Landsat Data (Pages 101-40)	930 KB
Forecasting Crop Acreages and Yield in the Face of and In Spite of Floods	1978 KB
Forecasting Crop Acreages and Yields in the Face of and in Spite Floods	2112 KB
Functional Equivalence of Spectral Vegetation Indices	1387 KB
Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Pages 1-100)	9880 KB
Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Pages 101-90	9726 KB
Hopefully Helpful Guide for the LANSAT Analyst on How to Convince Others You Think You Know What You are Talking About	612 KB
Idaho Crop Identification Key	381 KB
Improved Crop Acreage Estimation Utilizing LANDSAT	426 KB
Improved Crop Area Estimation in the Mississippi Delta Region Using LANDSAT TM Data	731 KB
Independent Peer Evaluation of the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment	3132 KB
Information System Based on Statistical Inference	1055 KB
Integrated Use of Landsat with Ground Data	829 KB
International Statistics Programs of Technical Statistics	590 KB
Kansas Wheat Non-Sampling Error Analysis	925 KB
LACIE Phase III Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 1-100)	3431 KB
LACIE Phase III Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 101-200)	3320 KB
LACIE Phase III Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 201-300)	3981 KB
LACIE Phase III Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 301-20)	522 KB
LACIE – Final Technical Evaluation Summary Report	2690 KB
LANDSAT Estimation with Cloud Cover	124 KB
LANDSAT Image Availability for Crop Area Estimation	244 KB
LANDSAT Registration Methodology Used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Statistical Reporting Service 1972-1982	1170 KB
Land Cover Change Monitoring within the East Central Louisiana Study Site – A Case for Large Area Surveys with Landsat Multispectral Scanner Data	1186 KB
Landsat Large-Area Estimates for Land Cover	1217 KB
Landsat Large-Area Estimates for Land Cover1	1139 KB
Large Domain Satellite Based Estimators of Crop Planted Area	431 KB
Large-Scale Test of Video Digitalizing Procedure for Ground-Data Labeling of Landsat Pixels	1284 KB
Livestock Counts on Negative and Positive Transparencies	733 KB
Management Issues of Integrating Earth Resource Satellite Data into the United States Department of Agriculture’s Domestic Crop-Area Estimation Program	642 KB
Manual for the Use of Software for Agricultural Statistics Using Remotely Sensed Data (Pages 1-100)	4469 KB
Manual for the Use of Software for Agricultural Statistics Using Remotely Sensed Data (Pages 101-200)	3861 KB
Manual for the Use of Software for Agricultural Statistics Using Remotely Sensed Data (Pages 201-60)	2511 KB
Mathematical Description and Program Documentation for Classy	2094 KB
Modification of Ordinary Clustering Algorithm to Allow for Splitting	240 KB
Monitoring Crop Progress Using NOAA AVHRR Data Adjusted for Seasonal Climatic Variation	613 KB
Montana Reservation Land and Native American Agricultural Survey Results	1690 KB
Montana Reservation Land and Native American Agricultural Survey	300 KB
Multiple Regression Estimation Using Classified LANDSAT Data	272 KB
Multitemporal vs. Unitemporal Analysis of MSS Landsat Data on a Full State Basis	326 KB
National Agricultural Statistics for Costa Rica	206 KB
Non-sampling Errors in Non-agricultural Strata of the 1980 Kansas June Enumerative Survey	609 KB
Obtaining Timely Crop Area Estimates Using Ground-Gathered and Landsat Data	1347 KB
On the Development of Small Area Estimators Using Landsat Data as Auxiliary Information	553 KB
Overview and Examples of the Editor System for Processing Landsat Data	2106 KB
PEDITOR A Portable Image Processing System	454 KB
PEDITOR – Current Status and Improvements	696 KB
Peditor Estimation Formulae Compiled across the Years	1124 KB
Peditor – Statistical Image Analysis for Agriculture	723 KB
Phase I and II Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 1-100)	3288 KB
Phase I and II Accuracy Assessment Final Report (Pages 101-88)	3037 KB
Potential Utility of Thematic Mapper Data in Estimating Crop Areas	385 KB
Precision of Crop Area Estimates	334 KB
Prediction of County Crop Areas Using Survey and Satellite Data	613 KB
Preliminary Research Report on The Use of Photography in Sampling for Objective Yields of Deciduous Fruits	742 KB
Procedures for Utilizing LANDSAT Tapes without Deskewing	114 KB
Processing Satellite Imagery on the INEL CRAY for Crop Area Estimation	488 KB
Quantifying Agricultural Indicators of Desert Encroachment	354 KB
Ranking the States for Area Frame Development	477 KB
Regional Variation and Crop Separability in a Thematic Mapper Based Crop Inventory of New York State	520 KB
Remote Sensing A Study of Optical Density Responses as an Indicator of Corn Yields in South Dakota - 1969	1491 KB
Remote Sensing Applications – USDA Viewpoint	484 KB
Remote Sensing Branch Handouts for Statistical Research Division Review	2867 KB
Remote Sensing Program of the National Agricultural Statistics Service From a Management Perspective	671 KB
Remote Sensing Program of the National Agricultural Statistics Service From a Management Perspective	753 KB
Remote Sensing Relationship of Aerial Photography Reflectance to Crop Yields 1968 Texas Cotton and Sorghum Study	724 KB
Remote Sensing and Changes in Land Use in Central Arizona	546 KB
Remote Sensing for Agriculture and Natural Resources from Space	1234 KB
Remote Sensing for Crop and Livestock Estimates	288 KB
Remote Sensing for Crop and Livestock Estimates2	282 KB
Remote Sensor Comparison for Crop Area Estimation Using Multitemporal Data	900 KB
Remote Sensor Comparison for Crop Area Estimation	304 KB
Remote Sensors – A New Data Source for Agricultural Statistics	453 KB
Report on 1978 LANSAT Yield and Production Study as It Pertains to the Objective Yield Program	1077 KB
Research Evaluation Considerations for Agristars	692 KB
Results of the 1971 Corn Blight Watch Experiment	1864 KB
Satellite Data Analysis for Inventorying Crops Grown in a Complex Small-Field Environment	618 KB
Satellite Remote Sensing for Domestic Crop Reporting in the United States and Canada A Look to the Future	801 KB
Scope and Methods of the Statistical Reporting Service	469 KB
Selection of the Optimum Linear Regression Relationship for Determining Spring Wheat Yields Using NOAA AVHRR Data	577 KB
Sequential Classification and Clustering Methods Applied to Digitized Photography	2596 KB
Several New Characteristics of Probability Crop Acreage Data Collected by the Statistical Reporting Service in Illinois in 1975	496 KB
Small Area Estimators County Crop Acreage Estimates Using LANDSAT Data	381 KB
Small Area Estimators County Crop Acreage Estimates Using LANDSAT Data2	396 KB
Soil Stratification Effects on LANDSAT Signatures	660 KB
South Dakota Sunflower Acreage Estimates by Satellite	242 KB
Southeastern North Dakota Landsat TM Crop Mapping Project	759 KB
Spatial Classification Techniques Illustrated in a Remote Sensing Context	1518 KB
Spectral and Spatial Characterisation of Orchards in New York State Using Thematic Mapper Imagery	625 KB
Spring Wheat Yield Assessment Using Landsat TM Imagery and a Crop Simulation Model	796 KB
Spring Wheat Yield Assessment Using NOAA AVHRR Data	1044 KB
State Level Crop Area Estimation Using Satellite Data in a Regression Estimator	449 KB
Stratification of Sampled Land Cover by Soils for Landsat-Based Area Estimation and Mapping	728 KB
Stratified Acreage Estimates in the Illinois Crop-Acreage Experiment	1460 KB
Surveys of Crop Production in Jamaica	713 KB
Texas Vegetable Remote Sensing Study, 1969 Determination of Optimum Plot Size and Shape for Estimation of Carrot Yield	1103 KB
Texas ’74 Remote Sensing Project	1399 KB
The 1976 Illinois Project Follow-on Study	917 KB
The Anomalous ’93 Growing Season – How USDA Used AVHRR Data	454 KB
The Area Frame A Sampling Base for Establishment Surveys	1123 KB
The California Cooperative Remote Sensing Project Final Report	4815 KB
The Comparison of Emulated Multispectral Scanner Data Sets	592 KB
The Comparison of Emulated Multispectral Scanner Data	598 KB
The Construction of a Dry Bean Area Sampling Frame in Michigan	764 KB
The Effect of Cubic Convolution Resampling on Crop Area Estimates	428 KB
The Effect of the LANDSAT Cloud Cover Domain on Winter Wheat Acreage Estimation in Kansas during 1976	136 KB
The Effects of the Application of Smoothing and Orthogonal Transforms to Spot and TM Data on Regression Based Crop Acreage Estimates	391 KB
The Future of Remote Sensing in U.S. Crop Estimating Programs	954 KB
The Future of Remote Sensing	425 KB
The Integration of LANDSAT Data into the Crop Estimation Program of the USDA’s Statistical Reporting Service	1501 KB
The Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment	1070 KB
The NASS Delta Project 1991-92 Rice and Cotton Acreage	200 KB
The National Agricultural Statistics Service County Estimates Program	892 KB
The New California Area Frame A Statistical Study	2477 KB
The Remote Sensing Applications Program of the National Agricultural Statistics Service 1980-1987	2456 KB
The Results of Integration of the North Star Microcomputers into the Remote Sensing Branch’s Data Processing System	839 KB
The Role of Landsat Data in Improving U.S. Crop Statistics	609 KB
The Stratification Process	844 KB
The System of Sequential Classification, Clustering, and Counting Fruit Trees from Digitalizing Aerial Photographs	538 KB
The System of Sequential Classification, Clustering, and Counting Fruit from Digitalized Ground Photographs	426 KB
The Technology of Landsat Imagery and Its Value in Crop Estimation for the U.S. Department of Agriculture	2079 KB
The Use of LANDSAT for County Estimates of Crop Areas Evaluation of the Huddleston-Ray and the Battese-Fuller Estimators	1578 KB
The Use of Meteorological Satellite Data in Assessing Crop Condition	3346 KB
The Use of Regression Estimation with LANDSAT and Probability Ground Sample Data	411 KB
The Utility of Remote Sensing in Agricultural Statistics	551 KB
Thematic Mapper Simulator Data Collected over Eastern North Dakota	832 KB
USDA Registration and Rectification Requirements	570 KB
USDA – A Federal User of Landsat Remote Sensing	406 KB
USDASRS Software for LANSAT MSS-Based Crop-Acreage Estimation	656 KB
Update on Remote Sensing Program of the National Agricultural Statistics Service	526 KB
Use of Ground Enumerative and LANDSAT Digital Data to Obtain Land Cover Classification and Area Estimates at the State Level	531 KB
Use of LANDSAT Classified Pixels for Estimating Annual Livestock and Crop Inventories	409 KB
Use of LANDSAT Classified Pixels for Estimating Annual Livestock and Crop Inventories2	403 KB
Use of Photography and Other Objective Yield Procedures for Citrus Fruit 1968 Texas Research	2279 KB
Use of Remote Sensing for Livestock Inventories	1144 KB
Use of Remote Sensing in Sampling for Agricultural Data	664 KB
Use of Remote Sensing with Area Sampling Frames	376 KB
Useful Criteria to Select Which Forecast or Estimation Method is Better	1639 KB
User’s Guide and Program Documentation for Classy (Adaptive Maximum-Likelihood Clustering Program)	2132 KB
Using Geographic Information Systems for Dissemination of U.S. Agricultural Statistics	2595 KB
Using the EDITOR System for Crop Area Estimation	287 KB
Using the PEDITOR System for Crop Area Estimation An Analyst’s View	374 KB
Vegetable Crop Inventory with LANDSAT TM Data	320 KB
Vegetable and Fruit Tree Inventory with LANDSAT TM Data Preliminary Results	323 KB
Wheat Yield Models for the U.S.S.R.	1329 KB
World Food Survey	303 KB

Last modified: 12/22/10