Hoffman R.R., Markman A.B. (eds.) Interpreting Remote Sensing Imagery. Human Factors

Lewis Publishers, 2001. — 304 p.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.
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.Overview
Angles of regard: psychology meets technology in the perception and interpretation of nonliteral imagery
The communication of topographic perspectives and forms
Human factors in the interpretation of physiography by symbolic and numerical representations within an expert system
Scenes into numbers: facing the subjective in landform quantification
Seeing the invisible
On the psychophysics of night vision goggles
Human perception of sensor-fused imagery
Seeing the dynamics
Components of expertise in the perception and interpretation of meteorological charts
The role of remote sensing displays in earth climate and planetary atmospheric research
The skilled interpretation of weather satellite images: learning to see patterns and not just cues