Development of a Coal Surface Mine Monitoring Capability Utilizing Landsat Satellite Technology

摘要

The purpose of the investigation was the continued development of the STANSORT II software program, a satellite oriented multispectral software package, and transfer of the software to the Technology Application Center as an established applications group. The group could then provide direct support services in the monitoring of coal surface mining to the Office of Surface Mining. Specifically the grant provided for: completion of necessary software developments of STANSORT II and transfer of that software to a small, dedicated computer; establishing the Technology Application Center with the ability to use the software; demonstration of the STANSORT II monitoring capability to date within a surface mine in Oklahoma; and satisfactorily classify the Navajo coal surface mine in northwestern New Mexico previously classified by STANSORT software operating on a large computer.