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
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1.61 μm _____________________ 11.20 μm _____________________