LTRMP standard operating procedures:  Quality control for cartographic activities

Owens, T. W., K. Hop, L. Robinson, L. DeHaan, and T. Fancher.  1997.  Long Term
Resource Monitoring Program standard operating procedures:  Quality control for
cartographic activities.  U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Management Technical
Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, May 1997.  LTRMP 95-P008-7.  10 pp. + Appendixes
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ABSTRACT

The Environmental Management Technical Center has produced a series of standard
operating procedure (SOP) manuals detailing the steps in producing spatial data sets to
meet quality standards.  The present SOP Manual is a continuation of that series detailing
the quality control (QC) standards and procedures taken at each production step to ensure
that the data are correct and can be passed to the next stage in the production process. 
Adherence to the SOPs detailed in the other manuals and to the QC procedures discussed
here ensure that errors are kept to a minimum and that the data are reliable for monitoring
and research.


KEYWORDS

Cartography, digitizing, photo interpretation, quality control, standard operation
procedures, zoom transfer scope