IAPRS & SIS, Vol.34, Part 7, “Resource and Environmental Monitoring”, Hyderabad, India, 2002 
  
  
  
IMAGE INTERPRETATION (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, SATELLITE IMAGERY) 
ON TERRAIN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION 
. Lazaridou M., Patmios E. 
lazamari @civil.auth.er, epatmios @civil.auth.gr 
  
Lab. Of -Photogrammetry-Remote Sensing 
Dept. of Civil Engineers 
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 
P.O. Box 467, 541 24 
Thessaloniki, Greece 
KEY WORDS: aerial photography, SPOT imagery, visual interpretation, digital analysis, land use classification, geo-sciences, 
terrain analysis. 
ABSTRACT : 
Terrain evaluation is very important for development (economy and improvement of life conditions for all the world). It is done at 
different levels, with different techniques and corresponding results of different quality. It is closely related with the scientific areas 
of geo-science (geomorphology, geology, hydrology, soils etc.). The above require qualitative and quantitative information that may 
result from photogrammetric and remote sensing methods and be used at input data to GIS. This paper refers to the above 
framework, concerns an area in North Greece (Kassandra Peninsula) and includes the following: Aerial photography interpretation 
for the recognition of physiognomy of the area, geomorphologic, geologic, hydrologic, cover etc, features, major terrain units and 
other features that interest terrain analysis and contribute to terrain evaluation. Visual image interpretation of SPOT satellite imagery 
from the above point of view. Digital analysis of SPOT satellite imagery for a general land use classification. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
Photogrammetric and remote sensing methods offer multiple 
qualitative and metric information. One fundamental application 
field is land study (geomorphology, geology, land uses). 
Image interpretation (visual, digital processing-analysis) and 
photogrammetric methods (analytical, digital, rectification, 
orthophotograph, DTM) are important “tools”. 
2. STUDY OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND 
SATELLITE DATA 
2.1. Aerial Photographs 
Thirty four aerial photographs in scale 
1: 42,000 were used. These cover the peninsula in six (I-VI) 
strips Fig. 1. 
Aerial photographs from G.S.A. and satellite images from 
GEOMET LTD are basic data for study and processing. 
The possibilities of image interpretation on subjects of terrain 
analysis (Wilson J.P., 2000, Zuidam R.A., 1979) are studied in 
this paper. Kassandra peninsula, Chalkidiki, in Northern Greece 
was chosen as application area-example. 
Loose photomosaic was formed and simple visual observation 
was done to have first information about the physiognomy of 
‘the area. 
  
  
  
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