WAVEFORM AND COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF GEOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA RECORDED ON COLOR AND COLOR INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY FROM AERIAL AND ORBITAL ALTITUDES

This investigation is a part of a continuing research pro-gram studying the potential of television-waveform instrumenta-tion in identifying, analyzing, and mapping geographic phenomena recorded in aerial and space imagery. Research objectives in-cluded: (1) Effectiveness of converting aerial color and color infrared imagery to electronic scanning returns with an ultimate goal of providing a graphic and quantitative method for analyzing the geographic data recorded on the above two imagery types; (2) Effectiveness of manually transposing waveform information re-corded from a systematic sampling by scan traverse lines into representative numbers (expressed as percentages) that reveal geographic phenomena and developing a computer program to manipu-late the geographic data in several ways; and (3) To reveal new facets of research that could be an outgrowth of this investiga