APPLICATIONS OF COLOR AND MULTISPECTRAL TECHNIQUES

The requirements for Military Geographic Intelligence are as broad and varied as the disparate elements of the terrain. The type of information required cannot always be extracted from conventional aerial sensors. With color aerial photography the dimension of hue is added to those of length, width, shape, texture, and shadow. A newly fabricated aerial cartographic camera with color correction capabilities (KC-4B) and equipped with Automatic Exposure Control is described. Another method of collecting aerial color photography, through the use of black-and-white imagery by multiband combination, is discussed. Design and fabrication of the multiband camera is complete; a viewer is under contract. A third method for extracting color information from the terrain by color coding techniques which are used to make an optical record of the spectral reflectances is also discussed; preliminary results are given. The purpose of the entire program is to optimize the collection of color aerial photography for man-machine processing with maximum resolution.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared for the 12th International Congress of Photogrammetry, Ottawa, Canada, July 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Photogrammetry

  105 North Virginia Avenue
  Falls Church, VA  United States  22046
• Authors:
  • Anson, A
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 513-523
• Serial:
  • Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • ISSN: 0099-1112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aerial photography; Color photography; Human machine systems; Imagery; Reflectivity; Spectrum analysis; Terrain evaluation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Multispectral imagery; Resolution
• Old TRIS Terms: Spectral reflectance
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139271
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM