Lab 2

Question 1

/ 1 pts
What datum does this image use?
Correct!

NAD 1983

WGS 1984

Lambert conformal conic

State Plane, Zone 3104

Latitude/longitude

Question 2

1.33 / 2 pts

What is the mean value for the IR band  ? The maximum  ? The minimum ?

*round your answers to the nearest whole number

Answer 1:

You Answered121.76
Correct Answer

122

Answer 2:

Correct!241
Answer 3:

Correct!38

Question 3

/ 1 pts
What is the distance between first and second base? (round your answer to the nearest meter)
Correct!

0 (with margin: 0)

20 (with margin: 1)

Question 4

/ 1 pts
What is the angle of the line segment? (Round to the nearest degree)
Correct!

0 (with margin: 0)

0 (with margin: 0)

0 (with margin: 0)

66 (with margin: 4)

Question 5

1.5 / 3 pts
How does changing the minimum and maximum sliders in each histogram affect the display of the image?
Your Answer:

Changing the minimum and maximum sliders in each histogram either made the color more prominent or made the color weaker. For example, for red, changing the minimum to 200 made the color red disappear; however, changing the maximum to 100 made the color more visible. Each band has

You can provide a bit more of an explanation here

Question 6

10 / 10 pts
Upload your FullResolution1.tiff file to here.

Question 7

/ 8 pts
Upload your RGBtoHSI1.jpg file here.

Question 8

/ 1 pts
What search terms did you use? How many results did Google Scholar return?
Your Answer:

I used the search term ‘remote sensing + biogeography -book’. Google Scholar returned a result of 58,800.

Question 9

/ 2 pts
Prepare a list of four papers published in different peer-reviewed journals (not books) that describe an application of remotely sensed data; you must provide the complete bibliographic citation for each article (following the APA standard). Do not include magazine or newspaper articles, or conference proceedings, in your list.
Question 10

/ 6 pts
Prepare a short (2 paragraph) summary of one of the articles from your list. Make sure that this is a primary research article, and not a review paper (ask your TA for assistance if you don’t know the difference). Briefly describe the research question and discuss how the author(s) used remote sensing information to address the question. Provide the full reference for the article, along with information describing the remote sensing data used by the author(s) (e.g., the sensor, the resolution).
Main results can be bit clearer
30.83/35