Week-4: Introduction to Remote Sensing
Assignment-4
Time: 1hr Max. Marks: 30
Note: Attempt all questions.
1. Which of the following types of sensors uses a highly focused beam of light?
(a) Sonar
(b) Lidar
(c) Ground penetrating radar
(d) Side-looking radar
2. Which of the following is not a type of radiometric correction used in image
processing when there is interference with the radiance measured by an
instrument?
(a) Noise removal
(b) Ozone depletion correction
(c) Haze correction
(d) Sun angle correction
3. What is meant by the term 'spatial filtering' in remote sensing?
(a) Changing the position of pixels in an image because of inconsistencies in
the relationship between sensor and surface during data collection
(b) Making parts of the image at a different scale to another part of the image
(c) Separating a scene into separate constituent parts and focusing on a
smaller section to increase the resolution
(d) Selectively preserving certain pixel frequencies in an image to
enhance particular features or edges of objects
4. In the process of image classification, which of the following methods results in a
greater accuracy of classes within an image actually matching land use patterns
on the ground?
(a) Manual/supervised by a user
(b) Robotic classification
(c) Fully automated
(d) Unprocessed image interpretation
5. Which is first step in digital image processing:
(a) Spatial filtering
(b) Image acquisition
(c) Image enhancement
(d) Image restoration
6. Which colour is having largest wavelength in visible spectrum
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) Green
(d) Yellow
7. A 512 x 512 image of 8 bits would require computer memory to store:
(a) 512 MB
(b) 1.44 MB
(c) 2.1 MB
(d) 8 MB
8. For edge detection which spatial filter would be most suitable?
(a) Gaussian
(b) Laplacian
(c) Low-pass
(d) None of the above
9. Filter that replaces pixel value with medians of intensity levels is
(a) Arithmetic mean filter
(b) Geometric mean filter
(c) Median filter
(d) Sequence mean filter
10. Base of image pyramid contains:
(a) Low resolution
(b) High resolution
(c) Intensity
(d) Blurred portion
11. Compressed image can be recovered back by
(a) Image enhancement
(b) Image decompression
(c) Image contrast
(d) Image equalization
12. High pass filters highlight:
(a) Low intensity components
(b) Mid intensity components
(c) High intensity components
(d) All components
13. In Hyperspectral remote sensing the EM Spectrum is:
(a) Continuous
(b) Discontinuous
(c) Discrete
(d) None of the above
14. In Hyperspectral remote sensing, generally bands are relatively …….. as
compared to Multispectral remote sensing:
(a) Narrow
(b) Wide
(c) Broad
(d) Thick
15. ‘No data’ is a:
(a) Zero
(b) Always equal to 1
(c) Value
(d) Nothing
16. The process of turning remote sensing image into meaningful categories
representing surface conditions or classes is called?
(a) Geoprocessing
(b) Georeferencing
(c) Classification
(d) Spatial filtering
17. An image enhancement technique that attempts to improve the contrast in an
image by `stretching' the range of intensity values it contains to span a desired
range of values is called?
(a) Non-histogram Equalization
(b) Non-linear contrast stretching
(c) Histogram Equalization
(d) Linear contrast stretching
18. A pre-processing method to reconstruct physically calibrated values by
correcting the spectral errors and distortions caused by sensors is called:
(a) Geometric correction
(b) Radiometric correction
(c) Spatial correction
(d) Geographic correction
19. Global Positioning Service (GPS) uses 24 satellites in:
(a) 9 Orbits
(b) 8 Orbits
(c) 7 Orbits
(d) 6 Orbits
20. Global Positioning Service (GPS) is based on a principle called:
(a) Transmission
(b) Trilateration
(c) Obliteration
(d) Globalization
