Source: Ch.5 Campbel and

Carolina Distinguished Professor

Department of Geography

University of South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina 29208

jrjensen@sc.edu

ELEMENTS OF IMAGE INTERPRETATION

Elements of Image

Interpretation

Size

Shape

Shadow

Texture Height

and Depth

Pattern

Tone

Size: Relative and Absolute size of objects

on image

Shape: Gives ideals clues of features identity

Shadow: Helps to identify both natural and man made features

Tone : Denotes lightness or darkness of a region within an image

Tone and Color

Texture: refers to the apparent roughness or smoothness of a region.

Pattern: Arrangement of individual objects into distinctive recurring

forms that facilitates the recognition on aerial imageries

Height and Depth

Elements of Image Interpretation -

Site, Situation and Association

IMAGE INTERPRETATION STRATEGIES

Field Observation

Direct Recognition

Interpretation by inference

Probabilistic Interpretation

Deterministic Interpretation