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AN: B51D-0258    [Abstracts]
TI: Detecting Waste Tire Sites Using Satellite Imagery
AU: Quinlan, B
EM: jbquinlan@arc.nasa.gov
AU: * Huybrechts, C
EM: chuybrechts@arc.nasa.gov
AU: Schmidt, C
EM: cschmidt@mail.arc.nasa.gov
AU: Skiles, J W
EM: joseph.w.skiles@nasa.gov
AF: DEVELOP Program, Mail Stop 239-20 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 United States
AB: Waste tire piles pose environmental threats in the form of toxic fires and potential insect habitat. Previous techniques used to locate tire piles have included California Highway Patrol aerial surveillance and location tips from stakeholders. The TIRe (Tire Identification from Reflectance) model was developed as part of a pilot-project funded by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency, and executed at NASA Ames Research Center's DEVELOP Program during the summer of 2005. The goal of the pilot-project was to determine if high-resolution satellite imagery could be used to locate waste tire disposal sites. The TIRe model, built in Leica Geosystems' ERDAS Imagine Model Builder, was created to automate the process of isolating tires in satellite imagery in two land cover types found in California. The sole geospatial data input to the TIRe model was Space Imaging IKONOS imagery. Once the imagery was processed through the TIRe model, less than 1% of the original image remained, consisting only of dark pixels containing tires or spectrally similar features. The output, a binary image was overlain on top of the original image for visual interpretation. The TIRe model was successfully able to identify waste tire piles as small as 400 tires and will prove to be a valuable tool for the detection, monitoring and remediation of waste tire sites.
DE: 0478 Pollution: urban, regional and global (0345, 4251)
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005