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Chapter 5 2008
Chapter 5 2008
Carolina Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Jensen, 2007
Low Oblique Aerial Photograph
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High Oblique Aerial Photograph
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Vertical Aerial Photograph
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Reasons why photo/image interpretation are powerful
scientific tools:
• aerial/regional perspective;
• threedimensional depth perception;
• ability to obtain knowledge beyond our human visual perception;
• ability to obtain a historical image record to document change.
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The Aerial/Regional
Perspective
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Threedimensional
Depth Perception
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Obtaining Knowledge
Beyond our Human
Visual Perception
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Historical Image Record and Change Detection Documentation
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Elements of Image
Interpretation
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Elements of Image Interpretation Tone and Color
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Panchromatic Black and White Infrared
Tivoli North Bay on the Hudson River, NY Jensen, 2007
Elements of Image Interpretation Tone and Color
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Sir Isaac Newton
discovered that white
light could be
dispersed into its
spectral components
by passing it through
a prism.
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Color Theory
Additive Color Subtractive Color
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Elements of Image Interpretation Tone and Color
Color composite
RGB = green, red, nearinfrared
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Exposure, Development, and
Color Formation on Color Film Normal Color
A. Scene
reflectance
Blue Green Red White Black
Film
B. Film after
exposure
Blue Activated Activated
Internal Yellow filter (blueblocking)
latent
image
Green and blue Activated Activated
C. Film after white light
color reversal B G R B G R B G R B G R B G R
processing
Yellow dye layer clear Y ellow Y ellow Y ellow
B G R B G R
D. Colors in the Positive Transparency Viewed by the Photointerpreter
Blue
Blue Green Red White Black
blue the green the red the
complementary complementary complementary
color of yellow color of magenta color of cyan Jensen, 2007
Aerial Photography
Normal Color Falsecolor Infrared Using
Wratten #12 filter
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Exposure, Development, and Color
Formation on FalseColor Infrared Film ColorInfrared
Film
A. Scene Blue Green Red Infrared
reflectance
Yellow Wratten 12 filter (blueblocking)
B. Film after
Infrared sensitive layer Activated
latent
Green sensitive layer Activated image
Red sensitive layer Activated
white light
C. Film after color B G R B G R B G R B G R
reversal processing
Cyan dye layer Cyan Cyan Cyan clear
B G R
D. Colors in the Positive Transparency Viewed by the Photointerpreter
Black
Blue Blue Green Red
blue the green the red the
complementary complementary complementary
color of yellow color of magenta color of cyan Jensen, 2007
Aerial Photography
Normal Color Falsecolor Infrared Using
Wratten #12 filter
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Terrestrial Photography
Normal Color Falsecolor Infrared Using
Wratten #12 filter
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Elements of Image Interpretation Size
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Elements of Image Interpretation Shape
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Elements of Image Interpretation Texture
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Elements of Image Interpretation Pattern
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Elements of Image Interpretation Shadow
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Elements of Image Interpretation Height and Depth
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Elements of Image Interpretation
Site, Situation and Association
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Methods of Search
• Use of Collateral Information
• Convergence of Evidence
• Use of the Multiconcept
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Collateral
Information
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Convergence
of Evidence
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