Module 2 - Basics of Aerial Photography and Visual Interpretation of Aerial Photographs

This Modle was designed to provide basic skills in recognizing tone (brightness/darkness) and texture (smooth/rough) in areas and features; identifying features by their shape/size, shadow, pattern and aassociation; finally we compared a True Color Image to a False Color Image.  We used similar techniques for identifying areas (via polygons) and locations (via symbols) and converting them to .shp files so that they could be edited and labels added based upon information input into the attribute table.  Using similar marking techniques we learned to recognize how feature color changes depending on whether you are using a True Color or False Color image.

The first two exercises resulted in the following maps: