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- Digitized Aerial Photographs
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- The Black Earth image files are the results of a cooperative
- effort between the United States Geological Survey -
- National Mapping Division's Western Mapping Center (WMC) and
- the Soil Conservation Service's Cartographic and Geographic
- Information Systems staffs. With some overlap, the images
- on this disc provide coverage of the Black Earth 7 1/2
- minute quadrangle divided into quarters in Dane County, WI.
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- The numbers of lines and samples for the image .DAT files are:
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- lines: samples:
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- BENE 3879 3164
- BENW 3876 3164
- BESW 3869 3164
- BESE 3870 3164
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- (all are 8 bit images)
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- The original images are SCS aerial photographs acquired
- according to National Aerial Photography Program
- specifications. WMC used the inner orientation parameters
- (aerial camera calibrated focal length and calibrated
- fiducials), and USGS Digital Elevation Model data to rectify
- and register the images. Digital files were created using a
- Perkin-Elmer Corporation PDS microdensitometer Data
- Acquisition System. With this system WMC can scan and
- separate colors, or create a single-band panchromatic
- orthophoto quadrangle as presented here in the Black Earth
- imagery.
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- The Black Earth images are registered to North America Datum
- 1983 UTM coordinates. The images have been rotated to a
- true north-south alignment by WMC.
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- For further information concerning either this process or the
- availability of other digital data sets, contact John Findley,
- USGS, National Mapping Division, Reston, VA.
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