On November 8-10, 2017, another of-site training session «Vectorizing technologiy in forestry by means of Easy Trace software» was organized in the training center of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region. This was the second time this year for of-site training in this center.
This time the training made the emphasis on practical exercises. The first independent work began only half an hour after the beginning of the classes. And what is remarkable, in another half hour the first independent digitization was completed by all the listeners of the course. This was made possible by the training examples from the Easy Trace Catalog of Technologies. All further training was built in the same way: theory - demonstration - a practical lesson.
Contrary to our fears, the most difficult part of the technology of digitization - the preparation of images for vectorization - was performed by listeners "with a bang." They even managed to correct the lecturer's mistake and get a better binary image.
During the training, a full cycle of digitization was considered - from working with images to the attribution and control of vector data. Particular attention was paid to solving problems that arise when working with real materials. Ways of processing worn out maps, digitizing low-resolution images, simultaneous using of imagery and scanned maps, digitizing the results of manual interpretation were shown. The process of superposition of the previously created vector data on the network of real reference points obtained from imagery was considered separately.
In general, it was fun.