This detail shows the raw multispectral geo tiff Landsat 7 view of the Chesapeake Bay area of Washington D.C. which formed the basis for the final treatment shown on the next slide.

Farsight

This artwork is a digital collage focusing on remote sensing. An image base was designed from a synthesis of satellite multispectral, airborne hyperspectral and ground based Laser Radar sensors information. Research for this work involved designing a new color coding scheme for LADAR imaging analysis and commissioning three sensor data sets: a Landsat 7 satellite, multispectral view of the Chesapeake Bay area where the Laboratory is based; an airborne hyperspectral view of the laboratory; and a ground base L.A.D.A.R. 3D data set of the Zhal Laboratory building. The coloring of the satellite view which dominates the background was initially based on a spectral cast produced by an interferometer but has, for dramatic effect, undergone a free-form distortion caused by a series of digital filtering techniques. The helicopter featured is the Comanche helicopter.