WETMAAP Skill 1
Cocodrie Element 22

Skill 1:   Map Use
Element 22: Use of Landsat Thematic Satellite Mapper Image 

Materials: 

        1993 Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite Image 

        1995 Color infrared aerial photograph 

        1994 1:24,000 scale Lake Quitman-Cocodrie Topographic Quadrangle 

        1:100,000 scale Terrebonne Bay Topographic Quadrangle

        magnifying glass 

Exercises: 

        1. Using the 1:24,000 scale map and the 1995 aerial photograph locate:

                    a. Bay Cocodrie

                    b. Bayou Petite Caillou

                    c. Houma Navigation Channel

                    d. LUMCON building

                    e. Oil tanks (where the Houma Navigation Channel and Bayou Petite Caillou intersect 

        2. Using the 1:100,000 scale map and the 1995 aerial photograph locate:

a. Bay Cocodrie

b. Bayou Petite Caillou

c. Houma Navigation Channel 

                    d. LUMCON building 

        3. Using the satellite image and the 1:100,000 scale map locate on the satellite image:

a. Houma Navigation Channel

b. Bayou Petite Caillou

c. Cocodrie

d. the study site 

        4. Using the satellite image and the 1995 aerial photograph locate:

a. oil tanks

b. LUMCON building

c.  Bayou Petite Caillou

d. Houma Navigation Channel 

        5. What would you suggest about the information that you are able to visualize between the various maps, the 1995 aerial photograph, and the satellite image: 

                which shows the greatest detail?   ____________________________

                which shows the least detail?   ____________________________

                which shows the greatest area?   ____________________________

                which shows the smallest area?   ____________________________ 

                which shows the landscape in its true colors? ____________________________ 

       6. What is the scale of the satellite image? ________________________________