GIS 4035 Module 1

 GIS 4035 Module 1 Lab: Visual Interpretation

(Image 1: Exercise 1)

(Image 2: Exercise 2)

This week was the first week for doing an exercise in Remote Sensing Lab. For our lab we had to interpret the tone and texture of an aerial photograph, identify land features in an aerial photograph based on several visual attributes, and compare similar land features in true color and false color infrared photographs. The directions to each exercise were clear and concise and helped me to accomplish each objective to the exercises. I only initially had a little bit of trouble with exercise one  (Image 1) where I had to start the exercise over several times because of my own issue with not remembering how to save edits, but after four tries I finally figured it out thankfully. The set up for each exercise was relatively the same so it made doing the rest of the lab fun and easy. I could have done this lab in less than four hours but because I wanted to do my process summary along with each exercise I took a little longer to do the lab. At the end of the lab where we had to identify and compare land features with different colors was very interesting. Seeing how false color infrared images can skew the color such as going from green to red when looking at trees was a really cool treat at the end. I did have some confusion on whether a portion of the True color image was sand or water because it was white resembling sand but the false color IR kind of showed me it might have actually been water, I am still a little confused on what it actually is. Overall, the lab was smooth and easy. I mainly used the examples they gave us to help me follow along and identify objects so that way I could go and identify objects on my own afterwards.