Skill 1: Map Use
Element 33:   Use of ASTER/MODIS Airborne Images
 
Materials:       
            2000 ASTER/MODIS Airborne Simulator Browse Images
            2000 Natural Color Aerial Photograph 
            Blue pencil
 
Exercise:
 
1.         Using the Electromagnetic Spectrum Reference page.
 
2.         Review the ASTER/MODIS Airborne Simulator Browse images.
 
3.         Using the blue Pencil, mark with a vertical line along the Electromagnetic Spectrum, the wavelength of each of the Browse images.
 
4.         Which Browse images’ wavelengths are in the visible portion of the spectrum?
 
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5.         Which Browse images’ wavelengths are in the infrared portion of the spectrum?
 
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6.         The RGB Image is made up of wavelengths from which areas of the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
 
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7.         Within the images what features are particularly evident with each wavelength:
 
                  .66 μm  _____________________   3.74 μm  _____________________          
 
                1.61 μm  _____________________ 11.20 μm  _____________________