Lec 5: Image Interpretation

Spatial Techniques in Action — The saga goes on

a few photos from the mission to Mexico

... and the relation to Spatial Techniques

Capacity building in GIS & other Spatial Techniques

Announcements

Readings for Next Week are...?

The Readings for Today’s Lecture were:

Ch. 24: Image Map Interpretation

Questions?

How did last week’s lecture go?

How is Assignment No 2 coming along?

How are the Lab sessions?

Action item:

We need two Ombudspeople

Today’s Lecture

Image Interpretation

Image Interpretation

What did you think of this Chapter?

Exercise

Interpret (parts-of)The Golden Horseshoe Image:

Toronto Section (at 50%)

Hamilton (50%)

Question: Where are Niagara Falls? (50%)

Pearson Int’l Airport (100%)

Manual vs. Machine Assisted Image Interpretation/Analysis

The Keys of image interpretation:

Primary:

Tone

Color

Secondary:

Size

Shape

Texture

Tertiary:

Pattern

Height, Shadow

Higher:

Site & Association (“Context”)

Three levels of image feature understanding:

detection

identification

interpretation/analysis

A Digital Slideshow from Chapter 24

Along with a running commentary based on the text

Exercise

Interpret the JFK Airport Images

Color

B&W (high detail)

If there’s time, let’s take a look at:

Imagery of San Francisco

in various formats

‘til next week!