Chapter 5

Jose Calderon
A pillar of the GIS
Anatomy of an image

• GIS imagery creates photographic base maps and a seamless base, which extracts, tracks, or digitizes geographic
features.
• GIS incorporates image processing capabilities that make images easier to apply, use, and integrate.
Imagery layers are
universal and varied

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1. True color aerial

2. Landsat scene
3. Elevation surface
4. Land cover

• Grid spaces are cells that are actual geographic references.

• The grid allows raster data to be universal and helpful in presenting any geographic information.
Under the hood
Imagery contains metadata

How does it work?

• Earth observation images contain important metadata that allow the information to be used in Arcgis
intelligence, where technical georeferencing data information.
An adaptable format
Any GIS layer can be represented as a raster
Rasters can represent surfaces

Rasters can represent time

• Rasters are defined based on a data format.

• Images are managed as raster collections containing colored cells or pixels.
• GIS helps interpret pixelated photos.
Orthorectified imagery
Using elevation to enable accurate image georeferencing

• Photogrammetry processes images to generate other-rectified ideas.

• They orthorectified images process corrections for sensor system optical distortions caused by angle perspective.
Multispectral imagery
Enabling extrasensory perception
Natural color Color infrared
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Land and water interface Vegetation analysis

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• The multispectral images are data from a series of installed sensors that could work through bands.
• A band means which color is going to use in the map type
Rasters facilitate analysis
Assembling layer stacks

How does it work?