Landsat image and sample design for water reservoirs (Rapel dam Central Chile)
✍ Scribed by Leonardo Lavanderos; M. Eugenia Pozo; Carlos Pattillo; Hernán Miranda
- Book ID
- 104754261
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 551 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6369
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✦ Synopsis
Spatial heterogeneity of the Rapel reservoir surface waters is analyzed through Landsat images. The image digital counts are used with the aim or developing an aprioristic quantitative sample design.
Natural horizontal stratification of the Rapel Reservoir (Central Chile) is produced mainly by suspended solids. The spatial heterogeneity conditions of the reservoir for the Spring 86 -Summer 87 period were determined by qualitative analysis and image processing of the MSS Landsat, bands 1 and 3. The space-time variations of the different observed strata obtained with muItitemporal image analysis.
A random stratified sample design (r.s.s.d) was developed, based on the digital counts statisticai analysis. Strata population size as well as the average, variance and sampling size of the digital counts were obtained by the r.s.s.d method.
Stratification determined by analysis of satellite images were later correlated with ground data. Though the stratification of the reservoir is constant over time, the shape and size of the strata varys.