UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

DEPARTMENT OF GEOMATICS ENGINEERING

NAME : ARIFETO IVAN TANAKA

REGISTRATION NUMBER : R193649Z

COURSE CODE : SV324

TITLE : ASSIGNMENT

DATE : 09-11-21

LECTURER : M. MUREFU
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SENSOR ACTIVE PASSIVE

Gamma ray spectrometer passive

Laser scanner active

Imaging spectrometer passive

Multispectral scanner passive

Passive microwave radiometer passive

Radar altimeter active

Video camera passive

Thermal scanner passive

2a. A geostationary satellite orbit is a circular path followed by a satellite which is directly
above the Equator in which a satellite orbital period is equal to Earth’s rotation period of 24
hours and allows the satellite to view 45% of the Earth at the same time having a distorted
view of the polar regions.

b. The advantages of geostationary orbit for image acquisition are:

 Allows the satellite to view a greater part of the earth’s surface

 Allows the satellite to remain in the same position throughout the day and antennas
can be directed towards the satellite and remain on track

c. Repeat cycle is the time (in days) between two successive identical orbits whereas revisit
time is the time between two subsequent images of the same area.

3a. Three typical problems related to radiometry that require cosmetic corrections:

 Line stripping
 Periodic line dropouts
 Random noise or spikes

b. The sources of line stripping in an image are:

 Non-identical response of one or more detectors resulting from drift in response even
after calibration of the detectors
c. Line stripping in an image can be corrected by computing the histogram of one detector as
standard and then matching the histograms of other detectors to the histogram of the standard
detector.

4a. Georeferencing in an image is the digital correction of image coordinates by the

calculation of the appropriate transformation.

b. Geocoding an image is the digital correction of an image coordinates by resampling the

image so that the pixels are exactly positioned within the map coordinate system.

c. Three resampling algorithms that can be used in geometric corrections are:

 Nearest neighbour selection

 Bilinear interpolation
 Bicubic interpolation

ii) A resampling algorithm l would use if preserving spectral characteristics is more important
than preserving the shape of objects would be nearest neighbour resampling.