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22. Map comparison over time

Landsat images are acquired from space. Dr. Miller initiated
this work in order to visualize changes to the river system that
have occurred over a 100-year period. This is accomplished by
overlaying the MRC plates (1894) and Landsat 5 images
(1990s) (example on right)

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Contact: jganne [email protected] 573-876-1876
USGS Biological Resources Division

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Last Modification: 08/13/2002

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MRC Map Formats

The MRC maps are available to download in two different formats
for downloading

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These maps are UNPROJECTED black and white images. Each
plate is 26" wide by and14” inches tall, 400 dpi resolution, and
about 350 kb in size. They can be resized and reduced in resolution
for insertion into printed documents.

2. Vector (ArcView files]
Dr. David Miller, Department of Geography, SUNY Cortland,
Cortland, NY converted the unprojected raster images of the map
series to projected ArcView shapefiles. The compressed vector
files can be as large as 18MB.

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