Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration by Shenandoah Mountain Geographics

The Use of Imagery in Transportation Planning: A Guidebook

Putting Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies to Work for Transportation Planners

Price: $40
(Price outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico $80)
Order number: PB2004101690
Media type: Technical Document

The guidebook provides background information on the key concepts of remote sensing, uses of remote sensing in specific transportation planning activities, and steps to integrate imagery-based products of remote sensing into a geographic information system. The guidebook is designed to assist a range of transportation planners-from those with little prior knowledge of remote sensing and GIS technologies to those with several years of practical, hands-on experience in the use of the data.

The guidebook is organized to present overview information on remote sensing followed by specific applications of imagery uses in transportation planning.

• Section I presents four chapters that provide an overview of the technology and introduce important concepts that provide a foundation for understanding the applications.
• Section II defines six broad application of imagery to support transportation and includes examples from metropolitan planning organizations and state Departments of Transportation.
• The appendices contain additional useful information, including a discussion of data acquisition, classification hierarchies, a summary of selected literature, and references for additional reading.