WETMAAP Skill 1
Golden Meadow - Element 13

Skill 1: Map Use
Element 13: Use of Landsat Thematic Satellite Mapper Image

Materials:         

            1993              Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite Image 

            1995              Color infrared aerial photograph   

            1994             1:24,000 scale Golden Meadow/Golden Meadow Farms/Bay Courant/Mink Bayou Topographic Quadrangle            

            1:100,000        scale topographic map     

            magnifying glass

Exercises:

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

                  a.      Plaisance Canal

                  b.      Floodgate on Bayou Lafourche

                  c.      Community Park

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

                  a.      Plaisance Canal

                  b.      Floodgate on Bayou Lafourche

                  c.      Golden Meadow oil and gas field

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

            image:

                  a.      the study site

                  b.      all roads

                  c.      Bayou Lafourche

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

                  a.      Floodgate on Bayou Lafourche

                  b.      Plaisance Canal

                  c.      Pipeline Canal

                  d.      Vegetated areas in canal inside protection levee

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? ____________________________