Interpreting Remote Sensing Imagery: Human Factors

by Hoffman; Robert R.

• ISBN13: 9781566704137
• ISBN10: 1566704138
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-26
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

No matter how advanced the technology, there is always the human factor involved - the power behind the technology. Interpreting Remote Sensing Imagery: Human Factors draws together leading psychologists, remote sensing scientists, and government and industry scientists to consider the factors involved in expertise and perceptual skill. This book covers the cognitive issues of learning, perception, and expertise, the applied issues of display design, interface design, software design, and mental workload issues, and the practitioner's issues of workstation design, human performance, and training. It tackles the intangibles of data interpretation, based on information from experts who do the job. You will learn: Information and perception What do experts perceive in remote sensing and cartographic displays? Reasoning and perception How do experts "see through" the data display to understand its meaning and significance? Human-computer interaction How do experts work with their displays and what happens when the "fiddle" with them? Learning and training What are the milestones in training development from novice to expert image interpreter? Interpreting Remote Sensing Imagery: Human Factors breaks down the mystery of what experts do when they interpret data, how they learn, and what individual factors speed or impede training. Even more importantly, it gives you the tools to train efficiently and understand how the human factor impacts data interpretation.

Table of Contents

Section One: Introduction
Overview	3	(8)
Robert R. Hoffman
Arthur B. Markman
Angles of regard: psychology meets technology in the perception and interpretation of nonliteral imagery	11	(48)
Robert R. Hoffman
Arthur B. Markman
Walter H. Carnahan
Section Two: The Communication of topographic perspectives and forms
Human factors in the interpretation of physiography by symbolic and numerical respresentations within an expert system	59	(24)
Demetre P. Argialas
G. Ch. Miliaresis
Scenes into numbers: facing the subjective in landform quantification	83	(34)
Richard J. Pike
Section Three: Seeing the invisible
On the psychophysics of night vision goggles	117	(20)
William R. Uttal
Randall W. Gibb
Human perception of sensor-fused imagery	137	(48)
Edward A. Essock
Jason S. McCarley
Michael J. Sinai
J. Kevin DeFord
Section Four: Seeing the dynamics
Components of expertise in the perception and interpretation of metorological charts	185	(22)
Richard K. Lowe
The role of remote sensing displays in earth climate and planetary atmospheric research	207	(28)
Anthony D. Del Genio
The skilled interpretation of weather satellite images: learning to see patterns and not just cues	235	(38)
H. Michael Mogil
Author Index	273	(12)
Subject Index	285