REMOTE SENSING TOOLS FOR STATEWIDE MANAGEMENT: DEVELOPING A LANDSAT 7 IMAGERY DATABASE OF KANSAS

The Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program of the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS) is developing a publicly available multi-seasonal statewide Landsat 7 data archive of Kansas. This opportunity became available for two reasons: a reduced cost in Landsat satellite imagery and the ability to freely distribute the data to the public. The archive will consist of precision rectified spring, summer, and fall Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) imagery in formats easily accessible to end users. Each rectified scene is being subset to create a database tiled by county allowing end users to quickly and easily display their area of interest. Each county will have 15 (3 dates, 5 products) images/maps. This satellite archive will offer educational and research opportunities to government and non-government entities and individuals and enables state agencies to conduct statewide assessments. The Landsat 7 Imagery Archive also will address a variety of policies and programs identified in the Kansas State Water Plan (SWP), including identifying relationships between surface water quality and land use, identification and inventory of agricultural land use types that contribute to non-point source pollution, and providing current information about the location of structures and infrastructure that lie in the floodplain. This database will also be the basis for making