Using color in satellite images to estimate land use & land cover

Isolated vs. simultaneous color presentation

<in progress>

D.J. Aks --5/30/06

 

Sample conditions

Cued Color

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Color regions  of satellite images
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Cued color

Satellite Maps of Cook-Douglas Campus of Rutgers University
Condition overview shown below & enlargments linked here 

http://advgeo.rutgers.edu/maps/
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Some preliminary data (n=1)

When estimating colored regions, I tended to fixate on restricted regions of the display.  To get a better sense of the eye-scanning recordings I repeated these trials with the goal of deliberately scanning colored regions of the displays.

http://aks.rutgers.edu/eyetrack/RULandUse/