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The question to be answered is: What are the skills, abilities, and
techniques necessary to extract information from conventional and the
newer types of imagery? The second problem area deals with photoin-
terpreter (PI) performance within the special context of Army operations.
Specifically, what human resources does the Army need in order to cope
with the ever-increasing variety in types of images and at the same time
maintain acceptable standards of speed, accuracy, and completeness?
Other approaches have concentrated on improving the nature of stimuli
presented to the photointerpreter, that is, on determining how the quality
of the photograph can be improved so that the photointerpreter may be
able to extract more information. The approach described here accepts
the fact that there will sometimes be poor quality imagery which requires
interpretation, and seeks to extract better information and more infor-
mation through selecting potentially better photointerpreters and through |
improving the procedures and techniques they employ, their interactions
with other members in the group, and the way they use equipment.
| In order to answer these two broad questions, a research program
| has been formulated and divided into five areas, or research subtasks:
Tdentification of Basic Factors in Image Interpretation
| Development of Selection Techniques for Image Interpreter
Personnel
Utilization Measures Under Conditions of Emergency Demands
Identification of Basic Factors in "Real Time" Interpretation
Effective Group Approaches to Accomplish Major Image Interpre-
ter Missions
IDENTIFICATION OF BASIC FACTORS IN IMAGE INTERPRETATION
1 The first subtask will be discussed in considerable detail since
| it is the subtask on which the major effort is being placed, and since
the results of studies in this area will provide guidelines for the re-
maining research areas. The kinds of variables of concern in the first
subtask are presented below in caption form. Here concern is with the ,
input, with the system in operation, and finally, with the output of the
system.
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