CAST Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Annual Report - Center for Advanced ...

It remains our intent to conduct research that is
pertinent to Arkansas’ social, environmental, and
economic interests. The availability and quality
of water is a significant issue to many
Arkansans, and an area where research utilizing
satellite remote sensing has been used with
great success. This year we used AmericaView
funding to leverage the water quality work being
done by Indrajeet Chaubey, Sudhanshu Panda,
and Vijay Garg at the University of Arkansas’
Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering. In the past two years, their
department, through AmericaView, purchased
twelve Landsat 5 scenes and one Hyperion
scene over Beaver Lake: northwest Arkansas’
chief water source. Dr. Chaubey is widely
published, and his involvement will bring some
notoriety to the ArkansasView consortium. Co-PI
Gorham provided technical assistance on
remote sensing related issues. Other CAST
staffers provided system’s administration
services.
assembling team vitae, writing institutional and
agency programs descriptions, and investigating
potential funding sources. We believe that this
exercise will produce positive results in the
coming years, and there is good reason to have
confidence in our success.
Summary: A strong consortium with an active
membership that builds upon the specific
strengths of each member is more likely to find
the resources, from both public and private
sources, which are necessary to build a vital
remote sensing infrastructure both in Arkansas
and nationwide. We believe that through our
continued investments in consortium building,
education, outreach, and research activities we
will advance the goals of AmericaView. The
remote sensing user community in Arkansas is
small, it is increasingly dynamic, and offers
much potential for growth. Our consortium
seeks to build on the strengths of members
while judiciously incorporating the strengths of
new and potential members both from within and
outside of Arkansas. Through cooperation,
collaboration, and the effective leveraging of
existing resources, we are building a stronger
and more viable remote sensing community in
Arkansas.
Development of an Online Tracking and
Mapping System for the Arkansas Game &
Fish Commission
08/30/04 – 08/29/05
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
$79,737.
This hyperspectral “Data Slice” is a three-dimensional
representation of the Hyperion sensor’s 220 unique spectral
bands. Each layer, from top to bottom, captures information
from a discrete portion: 10-nm bandwidth ranging from 0.357
to 2.576 micrometers.
Finally, in an effort to create a more selfsustaining
consortium, in 2004-2005
ArkansasView members began collaborative
efforts to obtain funding from other sources. The
Arkansas Precision Agriculture Working Group
(ARPAWG) and other ArkansasView members
made some of the preparations necessary to
submit proposals as a group such as
Overview
During the spring of 2004, Arkansas Game and
Fish Commission biologists placed radio
transmitters on 28 mallards. These transmitters,
which weigh only 30 grams (less than 10% of a
duck's body weight), are part of a world-wide
tracking system know as ARGOS. ARGOS is
jointly operated by the French space agency
CNES, the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). With ARGOS, the
locations of each transmitter equipped mallard
can be measured to within 300 hundred meters
on a weekly or even daily basis and stored in a
ground-based computer.
Unlike previous banding and tracking efforts,
ARGOS allows AGFC to collect mallard
movement without recapturing the animal. The
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