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Aerial and satellite images in crisis management: Use and visual interpretation.

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Title in English Aerial and satellite images in crisis management: Use and visual interpretation
Authors

SVATOŇOVÁ Hana

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference ICMT 2015 - International Conference on Military Technologies 2015
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
web http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7153705
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MILTECHS.2015.7153705
Field Military subjects
Keywords aerial images; crisis management; evaluation of interpretation; satellite images
Description Maps, aerial and satellite imagery are essential when solving crisis situations. Aerial photographs can provide a useful visualization of the current situation, also technologies for image transmission from helicopters to Crisis Management Centers in the real-time are being developed. In order to make a right decision by the operators of the CMC, it is essential to read and interpret the images as quickly and carefully as possible. The article presents the results of a research on evaluation of comprehensibility of aerial and satellite images. Accuracy and speed of the identifying strategic objects, regarding the concrete use of a background (e.g. an aerial shot compared with a map, a satellite image in true colors compared with another one in false colors) and selected characteristics of respondents (e.g. sex, expertise), were the main observed factors. The research has shown that images in false colors are equally understandable to respondents and that aerial images are more comprehensible than maps to both experts and laymen. Men and women interpreted the images with the same accuracy and speed, however, experience of the respondents correlated with overall result
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