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Rating Level 0 |
Interpretability of the imagery is precluded by obscuration, degradation, or very poor resolution. |
Rating Level 1 |
Distinguish between major land use classes (e.g., urban, agricultural, forest, water, barren). |
Detect a medium-sized port facility. |
Detect large highways or railway bridges on the water. |
Detect landing obstacle belts on a beachhead. |
Rating Level 2 |
Detect large buildings (e.g., hospitals, factories). |
Identify road patterns, like clover leafs, on major highway systems. |
Detect areas where the forest has been felled. |
Detect a multilane highway. |
Rating Level 3 |
Identify the shoreline of a major river. |
Detect a helipad by the configuration and markings. |
Detect individual houses in residential neighborhoods. |
Detect an engineering equipment in operation. |
Detect a floating bridge erected in the river. |
Rating Level 4 |
Identify tracked or wheeled engineering equipment, wheeled vehicles by general type when in groups. |
Identify the destruction of the riverbank after the haul road construction of the crossing site. |
Detect a bridge on small river or mechanized bridge equipment in engineering operation. |
Detect a hastily constructed military road when not camouflaged. |
Detect landslide or rockslide large enough to obstruct a single-lane road. |
Detect antitank ditch or trench in monotonous background. |
Detected pathways in obstacle field. |
Identify suitable area for constructing helipad. |
Rating Level 5 |
Identify the type of soil of riverbanks. |
Identify beach terrain suitable for amphibious landing operation. |
Identify whether there is a bypass route around the main road. |
Identify bridge structure and damages. |
Identify the type of trees. |
Identify tents (larger than two persons) at camping areas. |
Distinguish between pattern painting camouflages and cover camouflages of military facilities. |
Rating Level 6 |
Detect summer woodland camouflage netting large enough to cover a tank against a scattered tree background. |
Detect navigational channel markers and mooring buoys in water. |
Detect recently installed minefields in ground forces deployment area based on a regular pattern of disturbed earth or vegetation. |
Identify obstacles in the road. |
Identify the type of large obstacles in obstacle belt (e.g., rail obstacle, antitank tetrahedron, etc.) |
Distinguish between wheeled bulldozers and loaders |
Rating Level 7 |
Distinguish between tanks, artillery, and their decoys. |
Identify the entrance of semiunderground works when not camouflaged. |
Detect underwater pier footings. |
Detect foxholes by ring of spoil outlining hole. |
Rating Level 8 |
Identify the number of personnel in engineering operations. |
Identify the shooting holes in the ground fortifications and detect scattered mines by minelaying vehicles. |
Rating Level 9 |
Identify individual barbs on a barbed wire fence. |
Identify equipment number painted on the engineering equipment. |
Identify braid of ropes 1 to 3 inches in diameter. |
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