Abstract	April 2001 brought widespread flooding of the Mississippi River to La Crosse, Wisconsin. This study compared two Landsat ETM satellite images, taken in April and September of 2001, to assess the geographical impact of the flood in the La Crosse area. The September image was used as the normal case and the April image was used as the flood case in order to draw statistical and spatial comparisons. By combining multi-spectral and panchromatic bands through a Brovey Transform resolution merge, the images were pan-sharpened to reveal the necessary information to give a detailed description of the flood. A classification of the transformed images shows how the river grew during the flood. A matrix function was used to produce an image that shows where flood waters resided during the flood.
Alternative title	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research
	UW-La Crosse JUR
Author	Manke, Greg
Contributor	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Undergraduate Research Program
Owner	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Sponsor	Berlin, Cynthia
Type of resource	text
Genre	journal
Genre authority	marcgt
Publisher name	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Place of publication	La Crosse, Wisconsin
Date published	2004
Date captured	2016-12-06
Language	eng
Width	8.5
Height	10.99
Subject topic	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Research -- Periodicals Authority: LCSH
Subject topic	College students -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals Authority: LCSH
Subject topic	Journals Authority: LCSH
Subject topic	Geography Authority: LCSH
Subject topic	Earth sciences Authority: LCSH
Note	Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 7 (2004)
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Collection	UWL Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Stock number	WU76.U5 J6