Table 3. Counties along the
Table 4. U.S. Geological Survey
Missouri River covered in
1:100,000-scale maps for which CETEC
the spatial database.
provided data.
Aledo -- Illinois, Iowa
Missouri
Iowa
Cape Girardeau -- Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky
Andrew
Fremont
Davenport -- Iowa, Illinois
Atchinson
Harrison
Quincy -- Illinois, Missouri
Boone
Mills
St. Louis -- Missouri, Illinois
Buchanan
Monona
Carbondale -- Illinois, Missouri
Callaway
Pottawattamie
Festus -- Missouri, Illinois
Carroll
Woodbury
Jerseyville -- Illinois, Missouri
Chariton
Farmington -- Missouri, Illinois
Clay
Kansas
Pinckneyville -- Illinois
Cole
Atchison
Burlington -- Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
Cooper
Doniphan
Franklin
Leavenworth
Gasconade
Wyandotte
the 1:100,000-scale maps at the RSGISC using the
Holt
GRASS4.0 (USACERL 1988) GIS and exported
Howard
Nebraska
from GRASS4.0 in a DLG-3 optional distribution
Jackson
Burt
Lafayette
Cass
format to ARC/INFO. By using GRASS for digitiz-
Moniteau
Dakota
ing, it became possible to use additional equip-
Montgomery
Douglas
ment and staff at CRREL to assist in the database
Osage
Nehama
development without requiring the ARC/INFO
Platte
Otoe
Ray
Richardson
capability that was necessary for producing maps.
Saline
Sarpy
St. Charles
Thurston
Commercial
St. Louis
Washington
St. Louis City
The RSGISC acquired remotely sensed data
Warren
from three satellite sensors: Landsat TM, SPOT
and ERS-1 SAR. Table 5 shows the location and
dates for which scenes were acquired during the
ferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Marshall, Nemaha,
flooding. This does not represent all the scenes
Pottawattamie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee and
that were available during this period, only the
Wyandotte. This reach of river is in UTM zones 14
scenes that were acquired and processed by the
and 15.
RSGISC.
The Republican River database consists of eight
counties in Nebraska and six counties in Kansas.
The Nebraska counties are: Dundy, Hitchcock,
Table 5. Satellite data collected during the
Red Willow, Furnas, Harlan, Franklin, Webster
and Nuckolls. The Kansas counties are: Jewell,
Time
Republic, Cloud, Washington, Clay and Dickin-
Date†
Sensor†† Location***
(GMT)**
City*
son. This region is in UTM zone 14.
Mississippi River
The Grand River database covers the following
Davenport
7 July
1648
ERS-1
10334-169
Kansas counties located below Gentry, Missouri:
14 July
0417
ERS-1
10427-262
Burlington
7 July
1648
ERS-1
10334-169
Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Gentry, Livingston and
St.Louis
18 July
1604
TM
024/033
Saline. The database is in UTM zone 14.
Chester
8 Aug
1644
ERS-1
10792-162
Cairo
27 July
1558
TM
023/033
Inundation data
Missouri River
Flood inundation data were acquired from sev-
Sioux City
26 July
0440
ERS-1
10599-434
Omaha
7 July
0437
ERS-1
10327-169
eral military and commercial sources.
St. Joseph
2 Aug
1726
SPOT
585,270
Booneville
25 July
1610
TM
025/033
Military
Fulton
4 Aug
1648
SPOT
592,272
The Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineer-
*
City near the center of the scene.
ing Center (CETEC), Fort Belvoir, Virginia, sup-
†
When the image was acquired.
**
GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
plied inundation data for the Mississippi River
††
ERS-1 is the European Remote Sensing Satellite
from a classified source. The data were reduced to
Synthetic Aperature Radar; TM is Landsat The-
an unclassified mode and drawn on 1:100,000-
matic Mapper; SPOT is Systeme Probatoire
d'Observation de la Terre.
scale maps at CETEC (Table 4).
*** Path/row for TM, K,J for SPOT, and orbit-track
The inundation extent data were digitized from
for ERS-1 SAR.
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