Part 1: Image Mosaicking

Section 1: Image mosaic with the use of Mosaic Express

Figure 1Mosaic created using the Mosaic Express tool.

Q1: The top image is darker in color while the bottom image has really bright colors.
The images definitely dont have a seamless edge.
Section 2: Image mosaic with the use of Mosaic Pro

Q2: Mosaic Pro made the pixels in the top image brighter, using histogram
matching, so they match the bottom image a lot better.

Part 2: Band Ratioing

Q3: White areas contain a lot of vegetation.
Q4: Areas that are dark gray have very little vegetation while areas that are black
have no vegetation.

Part 3: Spatial and spectral Image enhancement

Section 1: Spatial enhancement
Q5: A high frequency image is an image that has significant changes in brightness
values over a short distance.
Q6: Features on the output image blend together a lot more so it appears smoother.
The edges of the output arent as obvious. The output image appears blurrier than
the original.
Q7: A low frequency image is an image that has very little change in brightness
values in an area.
Q8: The output image has very rigid edges. It appears less blurry, but it does have a
salt and pepper appearance.
Q9: A Laplacian filter is a filter that sharpens the image by locally increasing the
contrast at discontinuities.
Q10: The Laplacian filter image has a lot of salt and pepper noise. It is also a lot
darker except where there is a large change in brightness values over a short
distance (edges). The edges show up as red on the output image.
Section 2: Spectral enhancement
Q11: This image as a normal Gaussian distribution.
Q12: Its appropriate because the image has normal distribution, and because we
want the image to have a higher contrast.

Q13: This image has a multimodal distribution.

Q14: A piecewise contrast stretch applies a stretch to each of the modes
independently.

Q15: The output piecewise image has a lot more pixels high reflectance that appear
white. It has more contrast than the original image.
Q16: There is a very low contrast in this image.
Q17: There is a much greater contrast in brightness values. A lot of the pixels that
appeared gray now appear white. This histogram is now spread out over all of the
brightness values. The histogram also has large steps in it compared to the original
histogram that was smoother, but confined to a small range of bvs.

Part 4: Binary change detection

Section 1: Creating a difference image

Section 2: Mapping change pixels in difference image using spatial

modeler

Q18: The majority of change occurred in rural farmland and not in urban areas.