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The term interpretation is derived from old French term interpretation or Latin interpretatio(n), and from the verb interpretari, literally means the action of explaining the meaning of something.

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Dwivedi, R.S. (2017). Image Interpretation. In: Remote Sensing of Soils. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53740-4_4

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