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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)

EPA: Multispectral - Airborne

Data Source: Environmental Protection Agency Remote Sensing Branch P.O.Box 15027 Las Vegas, NV. 89114

Data Format: MSS - Band Interleaved (BIL)

Scale: Customer variable

Data Coverage: Customer variable

Data Description: The EPA has an aircraft-mounted multispectral twelve-channel scanner(Daedalus 2600 ATM) available for contract data collection. The customer has control over area of coverage, resolution of data, and wavelengths to be collected.

Media: Custom flights

Aquisition Costs: A Corps of Engineers Southwest Division project yielded the following averages:

Resolution Price/Sq.Mile Price/acre
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5 meters $75.84 $0.12
10 meters $14.15 $0.022

Note: Approx. half the cost is due to aquiring

1 set of Color IR photographs.

Comments: Information were obtained from the report "Southwest Division Remote Sensing Bulletin - Remote Sensing Activites and Status Report 23 October 1984". Cost estimates provided by Mr. Gary Earls, Southwest Division Remote Sensing Coordinator.


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