Environmental Impact Research Program: Reservoir Bank Erosion and Cultural Resources: Experiments in Mapping and Predicting the Erosion of Archeological Sediments at Reservoirs Along the Middle Missouri River with Sequential Historical Aerial Photographs.

摘要

This report reviews remote sensing capabilities for assessing historical aerial photographs. The utility of photointerpretation for measurement of bank erosion is explored to empirically document impacts to threatened reservoir-side archeological sites and to model factors affecting differential rates of erosion between and within such sites. Since the processes of bank and beach erosion are long term in nature, so sequential, historical aerial photographs offer one of the best time-series data sources for studying reservoir bank erosion. Keywords: Banks waterways; Erosion prediction; Archeology; Aerial photographs; Cultural resource protection; Missouri River; Sequential photography; Remote sensing; Reservoir shoreline erosion mapping. (EDC)