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Table 8 Sources of Remote Sensing Data

From: Current practices in spatial analysis of cancer data: data characteristics and data sources for geographic studies of cancer

Dataset name

Source Agency

URL

Geographic Resolution

Digital orthophoto quadrangles

USGS

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/aerial.html

1:12,000

Satellite imagery

USGS

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/satellite.html

1 meter to 1 km

National Landcover Dataset (NLCD) 1992

USGS

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/landcover.html

30 meters

Multi-resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) 2000

   
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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X