På senare år har etableringen av 3D-applikationer på internet, för att visualisera geografiska områden och platser blivit allt vanligare. Exempel på sådana applikationer är tjänsterna Google Earth och Street View, som levereras av företaget Google. Den snabba utvecklingen av 3D-tjänsterna har medfört bättre bildupplösning och mer detaljerade satellitbilder. Detta har i sin tur fört med sig att integritets- och säkerhetsrelaterade frågeställningar relaterade till 3D-applikationerna har aktualiserats. Från flera håll i världen har Google stött på ifrågasättanden och protester. Skäl som påtalats i dessa sammanhang är bland annat integritetskränkande aspekter samt försvars- och säkerhetsrisker.Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka de säkerhetsrisker som kan komma att uppstå i takt med att Google kontinuerligt etablerar sina 3D-tjänster i Sverige. Undersökningen görs för att få en helhetsbild över hur svenska företag och myndigheter upplever Googles tjänster samt den lagstiftning som är förknippad med dessa. Undersökningen, som utförts i enkätform, har riktats in på svenska företag och myndigheter samt ambassader belägna i Sverige, som bedöms vara en potentiell måltavla för terroristbrott alternativt grova rån.Undersökningen visar att svenska företag och myndigheter har en god kännedom om Google och dess 3D-tjänster. Det framgår även att en stor majoritet av de tillfrågade företagen och myndigheterna identifierat säkerhetsrisker förknippade med webbtjänsterna. Uppfattningen är att säkerhetsriskerna kommer att aktualiseras allt mer i framtiden. Detta eftersom teknikutvecklingen leder till allt mer detaljerade bilder och eftersom de nationella lagstiftningarna får allt svårare att hänga med när det gäller att förebygga säkerhetsrisker. / In recent years, the establishment of 3D-applications on the internet, in order to show geographic areas and places, has become more common. Examples of such applications are the web services Google Earth and Street View, supplied by the company Google. The rapid development of the 3D-sevices has resulted in better image resolution and more detailed satellite photos. This in turn has led to that privacy and security related to the 3D-services has been actualized. From several parts of the world, Google has faced contestations and protests. Reasons alleged in these cases are among others integrity aspects as well as defense and security reasons.The aim of this work is to examine the security related matters that can occur during Google´s continuous establishment of its 3D-sevices in Sweden. The examine is done to get an overall picture over how Swedish companies and government agencies consider Google´s services and the law associated with these. The examine has been done through a written questionaries’ that has been sent to Swedish companies and government agencies and embassies located in Sweden, that have been considered to be a potential target of terrorist crime or severe robberies.The examine show that Swedish companies and government agencies have good knowledge of Google and their 3D-services. A great majority of the respondents have identified security risks associated with the Google 3D-applications. The general view is that the technology development that lead to more and more detailed photo technology will lead to a greater actualization of the security related matters in the future. Also the fact that the difficulties to adjust the national laws in order to prevent the problems considers being a reason that will be actualized more in the future.

Este trabalho apresenta uma plataforma para coleta e análise de imagens urbanas, que integra Interfaces de Programação de Aplicativos \"Application Programming Interfaces\" (APIs) de sistemas de busca de imagens, Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIGs), mapas digitais e técnicas de visão computacional. Esta plataforma, INACITY, permite que usuários selecionem regiões de interesse e capturem elementos de relevância para a arquitetura urbana, como, por exemplo árvores e buracos em ruas. A implementação da plataforma foi feita de maneira a permitir que novos módulos possam ser facilmente incluídos ou substituídos possibilitando a introdução de outras APIs de mapas, SIGs e filtros de Visão Computacional. Foram realizados experimentos com as imagens obtidas através do \"Google Street View\" onde árvores são capturadas em áreas de bairros inteiros em questão de minutos, um ganho significativo quando comparado com o procedimento manual para levantamento deste tipo de dado. Além disso, também são apresentados resultados comparativos entre os métodos de visão computacional propostos para a detecção de árvores em imagens com outros métodos heurísticos, em um conjunto onde as árvores estão marcadas manualmente e assim as taxas de precisão e de redescoberta de cada algoritmo podem ser avaliadas e comparadas. / This project presents a platform that integrates Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), image retrieval systems, Geographical Information Systems (GISes), digital maps and Computer Vision techniques to collect and analyse urban images. The platform, INACITY (an acronym for INvestigate and Analyse a City), empowers users allowing them to select a region over a map and see urban features inside that region that have relevance to the urban architecture context, for instance trees. The implementation is extensible and it is designed to make it easy to add or replace new modules, for instance, to add a new API to present a map, different GISes and other Computer Vision filters.

Este trabalho apresenta uma plataforma para coleta e análise de imagens urbanas, que integra Interfaces de Programação de Aplicativos \"Application Programming Interfaces\" (APIs) de sistemas de busca de imagens, Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIGs), mapas digitais e técnicas de visão computacional. Esta plataforma, INACITY, permite que usuários selecionem regiões de interesse e capturem elementos de relevância para a arquitetura urbana, como, por exemplo árvores e buracos em ruas. A implementação da plataforma foi feita de maneira a permitir que novos módulos possam ser facilmente incluídos ou substituídos possibilitando a introdução de outras APIs de mapas, SIGs e filtros de Visão Computacional. Foram realizados experimentos com as imagens obtidas através do \"Google Street View\" onde árvores são capturadas em áreas de bairros inteiros em questão de minutos, um ganho significativo quando comparado com o procedimento manual para levantamento deste tipo de dado. Além disso, também são apresentados resultados comparativos entre os métodos de visão computacional propostos para a detecção de árvores em imagens com outros métodos heurísticos, em um conjunto onde as árvores estão marcadas manualmente e assim as taxas de precisão e de redescoberta de cada algoritmo podem ser avaliadas e comparadas. / This project presents a platform that integrates Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), image retrieval systems, Geographical Information Systems (GISes), digital maps and Computer Vision techniques to collect and analyse urban images. The platform, INACITY (an acronym for INvestigate and Analyse a City), empowers users allowing them to select a region over a map and see urban features inside that region that have relevance to the urban architecture context, for instance trees. The implementation is extensible and it is designed to make it easy to add or replace new modules, for instance, to add a new API to present a map, different GISes and other Computer Vision filters.

Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2016-12-16T11:16:34Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Allan Kardec Lopes - 2016.pdf: 3329186 bytes, checksum: 643e80a250306bf9b1899cc724206ff5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2016-12-16T16:49:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Allan Kardec Lopes - 2016.pdf: 3329186 bytes, checksum: 643e80a250306bf9b1899cc724206ff5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-16T16:49:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Allan Kardec Lopes - 2016.pdf: 3329186 bytes, checksum: 643e80a250306bf9b1899cc724206ff5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-23 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / Urban environments, such as streets, roads and buildings, always require management and maintenance to better use. In this sense, computational tools to assist their managers are always desirable. Furthermore, these tools generally decrease spending in order to automate several tasks. This research presents an approach to recognition of pole utility in streets mapped by images from Google Street View. Features such as color, texture and shape were examined in order to find the best set of information that represents the objects of interest. The recognition was performed by a neural network type Multilayer Perceptron trained with the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The results show a higher accuracy in recognition when used in combination, mode RGB and texture properties as features to represent the structures present in the images. / Ambientes urbanos, tais como ruas, estradas e construções, sempre demandam gerenciamento e manutenção para que sejam melhor utilizados. Nesse sentido, ferramentas computacionais que auxiliem seus gestores são sempre desejáveis. Por outro lado, tais ferramentas geralmente diminuem os gastos tendo em vista que automatizam várias tarefas. Esta pesquisa apresenta uma abordagem para o reconhecimento de postes da rede elétrica em imagens de ruas mapeadas pelo Google Street View. Características como cor, textura e forma foram pesquisadas com o objetivo de se encontrar o melhor conjunto de informações que represente os objetos de interesse. O reconhecimento foi realizado por uma rede neural do tipo Multilayer Perceptron treinada com o algoritmo Levenberg-Marquardt. Os resultados obtidos demonstram uma acurácia superior no reconhecimento quando se utiliza, de forma combinada, a moda RGB e propriedades de textura como características para representar as estruturas presentes nas imagens

The present work proposes methods to calculate street-level exposures to solar radiation. The methods comprise a combination of different software algorithms, online databases and real-time standard measurements of solar radiation. Firstly, the use of the free access image database “Google Street View” to reconstruct urban geometries is illustrated. Google Street View represents an enormous source of information readily available for its general use in the field of urban atmospheric studies. With the aid of existing software packages, it was possible to reconstruct urban geometries as projected fisheye images of the canyon upper-hemispheric view, and to model total-shortwave solar irradiance within an urban canyon. The models allowed the calculation of relative street-canyon irradiance as a fraction of that received under a full-sky view, depending on the visibility of the solar disc and the reduced sky view factor. The combined use of the ideal models with real-time data allows for the calculation of street-canyon irradiance under any cloud conditions. Validation of these techniques was obtained by comparing the calculations against in situ measurements of irradiance from a local street canyon. The existing software, however, does not allow the calculation of spectral irradiance, required for inferring, for example, the biological effects of solar radiation. The use of spectral radiative transfer software was explored to provide spectral irradiance, but commonly available models do not include the effects of horizon obstructions. The approach presented here followed the same general guidelines used to calculate total-shortwave irradiance. The spectral models required a spectral partitioning of global irradiance into direct and diffuse components, allowing the independent analysis of horizon obstruction effects on these components at each wavelength. To partition global irradiance, two equations were developed for the calculation of the diffuse-to-global irradiance ratio (DGR) under cloudless conditions: one based on simplified radiative transfer theory, and an empirical fit for local conditions. Afterwards, the effects of horizon obstructions were evaluated in combination with real-time measurements of unobstructed global spectral irradiance. A set of simulated obstructions were used to validate the models. Finally, it was observed that neglecting the anisotropic distribution of the diffuse component of solar radiation in these simple models could produce large uncertainties in some situations. A practical solution for including the anisotropy of diffuse radiation was proposed, requiring images from an unobstructed digital sky camera. The combination of tools described here will allow calculation of total and spectral global irradiance upon a flat horizontal surface whatever the local field of view. This is possible at any geographical location were the urban geometries can be described, either by manually obtaining digital photographs, or through the Google Street View database, and where there is a reasonably local standard measurement of radiation.

Memoria para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil Eléctrico / El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal la predicción de robos de vehículos en la ciudad Santiago de Chile, mediante la confección de un modelo de Redes Neuronales que se alimente de información gráfica, socioeconómica y temporal de un sector geográfico de robo. Para ello se utiliza la base de edatos de robos de vehículos de la Asociación de aseguradoras de autos de Chile (AACH), y a cada muestra se le asignan cuatro imágenes de Google Street View, 15 características socioeconómicas extraídas del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) y de la Infraestructura de Datos Geospaciales de Chile (IDE), en conjunto con la temperatura en la fecha del incidente y la cantidad de incidentes cercanos que ocurren en el mes anterior. Esta memoria está enmarcada en el proyecto Fondef ID16I10222, liderado por los profeso- res Richard Webe y Ángel Jiménez del departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Univer- sidad de Chile. Para alcanzar el objetivo señalado al comienzo ,se propone un modelo de red neuronal alimentado por joint features y deep features; esto es que la red neuronal aprende de dis- tintos formatos de información como lo son datos estadísticos e imágenes. Además, en el caso de las imágenes, no son utilizadas directamente sino que se extraen carecterísticas de ellas, mediante una segunda red convolucional denominada Alexnet. Para entrenar la red es necesario disponer de zonas seguras, para lo cual se organiza la base de datos de ro- bos por fecha y se agrupa por mes, períodos en los cuales se denotan como zonas seguras aquellas que en el presente mes no posean a la redonda de 500 metros una ubicación de robos. El principal resultado esperado de la aplicación de este modelo es la obtención de proba- bilidades por zonas en una grilla de 0.01 grados de latitud y longitud sobre Santiago de Chile que puede ser representado como un heatmap de riesgo en la ciudad. Del modelo presentado, utilizando el conjunto completo de características se obtiene un 97.7% de accuracy, un 95% de precisión , un 98.9% de recall y un 97% de F1. Además al hacer reducción de características mediante Recursive feature selection y seleccionar las principales 1000 características, se obtiene un 92.96 % de accuracy, un 93.46 % de precisión, un 92.09 % de recall y un 92.77 % de F1. Con esto se concluye que el desempeño del modelo propuesto efectivamente permite una alta tasa de clasificación y además permite la creación de una representación gráfica. / Fondef 16I10222

Invasiva främmande arter är ett allvarligt hot mot biologisk mångfald. Kartläggning och övervakning av invasiva arter är viktigt för att kunna arbeta förebyggande mot spridningen och reducera effekterna. Parkslide är en invasiv art som idag är spridd över södra Sverige och riskerar att utgöra ett hot mot inhemska arter samt orsaka skada på infrastruktur på grund av dess starka invasiva förmåga. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka förekomst av parkslide i relation till tätorter samt att jämföra två olika metoder för kartläggning av parkslide i Blekinge län. I studien användes data från SLU Artdatabankens Artportal från åren 2020–2021 för att jämföra förekomsten av parkslide i närheten av (0–5 km) och längre bort (5–10 km) från tätort. Fortsatt undersöktes Google Street View (GSV) som en metod för kartläggning av parkslide genom att jämföra antalet observationer med antalet inrapporteringar i Artportalen. Slutligen gjordes en jämförelse mellan inrapporterad storlek (m2) på bestånd i Artportalen och från en fältundersökning. Resultatet av studien visade på en trend att antalet inrapporteringar ökar nära tätort, men trenden är inte statistiskt fastställd. Fortsatt visade resultatet att antalet observationer i GSV stämde överens med antalet inrapporteringar i Artportalen. Till sist visade resultatet att medelvärdena för storlek i Artportalen och från fältundersökningen inte skiljer sig signifikant från varandra. Dock var variationen i dessa data stor och visade ibland på stora skillnader i storlek, vilket sannolikt minskade den statistiska säkerheten. Sammantaget visar denna studie att inrapportering genom Artportalen kan ge en indikation på hur spridningen av parkslide ser ut men att data kan behöva verifieras genom fältstudier. Dessutom visar studien att GSV kan vara en användbar metod för att kontrollera inrapporteringar på ett resurseffektivt sätt. / Invasive alien species is a major threat to endemic biodiversity. Mapping and monitoring of invasive species is important in order to prevent spreading and reduce impacts. The invasive plant Japanese knotweed is spread across the south of Sweden and is threatening to harm native species and cause damage to infrastructure, due to its aggressive invasive capacity. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of Japanese knotweed in relation to urban areas and to compare two different methods of mapping Japanese knotweed in Blekinge County, Sweden. Data from SLU Swedish Species Information Centre (Artdatabankens Artportal) from the years 2020–2021 was used to compare the presence of Japanese knotweed near to (0–5 km) and farther away from (5–10 km) urban areas. In addition, Google Street View (GSV) was used as a method for mapping Japanese knotweed by comparing the number of observations inGSV to the number of reported findings in Artportalen. Finally, a comparison was made between the patch size (m2) reported in Artportalen versus from a field study.The result of the study shows a trend that the number of reported findings increase near urban areas, although the trend is not statistically significant. The result alsoshows that the number of observations in GSV match the number of reported findings in Artportalen. Finally, the result indicates that the mean patch size in Artportalen versus that from the field study does not significantly differ from each other. However, the variation in the data was substantial and sometimes showed large differences in patch size, which likely reduced statistical power. In conclusion, the result of this study shows that reporting through Artportalen can give an indication of the spread of Japanese knotweed, but that the findings may need to be verified by field studies. Furthermore, the study shows that GSV can be a useful method to verify reported findings in a resource-efficient way.

Sambandet mellan den fysiska miljön och brottslighet har sedan länge varit en relevant fråga inom den kriminologiska diskursen. Den föreliggande studien ämnar vidare undersöka huruvida fysisk oordning i urbana bostadsområden kan studeras genom Google Street View, ett webbaserat instrument för virtuella observationer. Syftet med studien är att undersöka om virtuellt observerad och självrapporterad uppfattad grad av fysisk oordning i bostadsområdet mäter samma fenomen, men även om virtuellt observerad fysisk oordning kan förklara skillnader i självrapporterad utsatthet för egendomsbrott. Genom att utföra virtuella observationer av fysisk oordning med hjälp av Google Street View i tjugo centralt belägna bostadsområden i Malmö visar resultaten att observerad och självrapporterad grad av fysisk oordning är starkt korrelerade och förefaller mäta samma fenomen. Resultaten visar även att observerad nivå av fysisk oordning genom Google Street View till viss del kan förklara variansen av utsatthet för egendomsbrott mellan bostadsområden. Avslutningsvis framhålls i studien att virtuella observationer genom Google Street View är ett lovande samt potentiellt kostnadseffektivt tillvägagångssätt för att undersöka graden av fysisk oordning i urbana bostadsområden. Användandet av Google Street View kantas dock av flera begränsningar som både framhålls och diskuteras grundligt i denna studie. / The correlation of physical environment and crime has been an ever relevant topic in the criminological discourse. This study attempts to unravel whether physical disorder in inner-city urban neighborhoods may be studied through Google Street View as a virtual observational tool. The aims of the study is to examine whether virtually observed and self-reported perceived level of neighborhood disorder measure the same phenomenon, and whether virtually observed physical disorder may explain variations of self-reported victimization of property crimes. By conducting virtual observations of physical disorder in twenty inner-city neighborhoods of Malmö through Google Street View, the results of the study propose that virtually observed and self-reported perceived level of disorder is strongly correlated and thus seems to measure the same phenomenon to a great extent. The results of the study also imply that observed physical disorder through Google Street View also accounts for neighborhood differences in victimization of property crimes. The study concludes that virtual observation through Google Street View is a promising and potentially cost-effective alternative approach when auditing neighborhood physical disorder. The methodology does however suffer by limitations which is highlighted and thoroughly discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 13775909 bytes, checksum: a65f9a9446bb61eaf79c21106539a9be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This document presented the relationship between Digital TV - through their interactivity - and virtual tours, regarding the presentation of remote locations based on the methodology employed in virtual tours of Google Street View. Briefly expounded the evolution of some issues necessary for the proper understanding of the project as: Virtual Tour, Google Street View, Tourism and Digital TV, drawing parallels and points of encounter between these social and cultural phenomena, and present a reflection on using conceptual image at the expense of its use as a visual representation only. This research was presented a possible adaptation to the Digital TV visitation to remote places through 360° panoramic tours. As validation of the hypothesis, an application was developed for Digital TV containing a virtual tour to a museum in the light of the methods used to develop virtual tours to the internet in order to demonstrate their use successfully in this new platform. As a complement, a WEB system was developed able to generate this NCL application, suitable for Digital TV. / Este trabalho apresentou a relação entre a TV Digital - através de seus recursos de interatividade - e passeios virtuais, no que tange a apresentação de lugares remotos tendo como base a metodologia empregada nos passeios virtuais do Google Street View1. De forma resumida explanou a evolução de alguns temas necessários ao bom entendimento do projeto como: Passeio/Tour virtual, Google Street View, Turismo e TV Digital, traçando paralelos e pontos de encontro entre estes fenômenos sociais e culturais, além de apresentar uma reflexão sobre o uso da imagem conceitual em detrimento do seu uso como representação exclusivamente visual. Foi apresentado nesta pesquisa um formato possível de adaptação à TV Digital de visitação a lugares remotos através de Tours panorâmicos 360°. Como validação da hipótese levantada, um aplicativo foi desenvolvido para TV Digital contendo um passeio virtual a um museu à luz dos métodos utilizados para desenvolvimento de passeios virtuais para internet, a fim de demonstrar o seu uso com êxito nessa nova plataforma. Como complemento, foi desenvolvido um sistema WEB capaz de gerar essa aplicação no formato NCL, próprio para TV Digital.

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2016-12-19T17:02:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio Henrique Ciquini.pdf: 11287255 bytes, checksum: de5ab319089cdaf74bad40f297a3c443 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-19T17:02:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio Henrique Ciquini.pdf: 11287255 bytes, checksum: de5ab319089cdaf74bad40f297a3c443 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-02 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The main objective of this research is to examine whether imagination can be configured as an “archaeological tool” over the image in its saturated media environments. The work begins considering Google Street View as its media environment and we affirm that inflation and continuous dissemination of images by its apparatuses causes a anaestheticization of senses. The selected corpus of analysis was the photographic act of German photographer Michael Wolf in the series titled Street View, in which author takes photos, through computer screen, from Google Street View site. By this object, one analyzes the inventive and delved character of this photographic dynamic over the images, which one suggests an archaeological nature in this photographic act. By this point, the idea of an archeology of image is here evoked in the sense of depth perception, which points not only to past traces hidden in the depths of the image, but also prospect signal elements that indicate future tracks in it. Therefore, one justifies the need for this archaeological sight, as a way to overcome the celebrated superficial visuality in mediatic images, and our suggested hypothesis is that the archaeological tool, which is able to delve on the image is imagination. Consequently, imagination would operate as a point of equalization in front of saturated visual media environments. The methodology adopted was an approximation to the object, which took place oblique cuts and a broader target, one considers for an Archeogenealogy of concepts and theories. The research approaches aspects of Image Theory in Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, Hans Belting and Norval Baitello Jr., about media environments and how images in excess dulls perception, there was discussion with reflections of Theory of Media in authors like Vilém Flusser – concepts of reign of garbage and escalating of abstraction - Dietmar Kamper (imaginary orbit and force of imagination) and Malena Contrera, concept of mediasphere. Regarding the concept of imagination, one argues based on Bachelard, and about visual thinking we consider reflections from Arnheim and Damasio. As a result, therefore, we emphasize how imagination is configured as an archeology of image based on three aspects: thought by images, optical unconscious and distraction. Thereby, one reaffirms the fundamental role of the imagination, and thus the body, in its anthropological relationship with images / O objetivo central desta pesquisa é analisar se a imaginação pode se configurar como ferramenta arqueológica sobre a imagem em seus saturados ambientes midiáticos. O trabalho parte do cenário midiático do Google Street View e afirma que a inflação e disseminação contínua das imagens por meio de seus aparatos provoca um anestesiamento dos sentidos. O corpus de análise selecionado foi o ato fotográfico do fotógrafo alemão Michael Wolf na série intitulada Street View, na qual o autor registra, via tela do computador, imagens do site Google Street View. Por meio deste objeto, analisa-se o caráter inventivo e de escavação da imagem presente na dinâmica, o qual sugere uma natureza arqueológica neste ato fotográfico. Isso posto, a ideia de uma arqueologia sobre a imagem é aqui evocada no sentido de uma percepção aprofundada, que aponte tanto rastros passados escondidos nas profundezas da imagem quanto prospecte elementos que a sinalizem como reserva de um porvir. Justifica-se, dessa forma, a necessidade dessa visada arqueológica como modo de superar a visualidade superficial tão celebrada nas imagens midiáticas, e a hipótese sugerida é a de que a ferramenta arqueológica capaz dessa escavação sobre a imagem é a imaginação, a qual operaria como ponto de equalização frente aos saturados ambientes visuais midiáticos. A metodologia adotada foi a de um movimento de aproximação ao objeto, no qual realizou-se tanto recortes oblíquos, quanto visadas mais amplas, buscando-se considerar a Arqueogenealogia de conceitos e teorias. A pesquisa aborda aspectos da Teoria da Imagem em Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, Hans Belting e Norval Baitello Jr., sobre os ambientes midiáticos e o modo como as imagens em excesso neles embotam a percepção, dialogou-se com reflexões da Teoria da Mídia em autores como Vilém Flusser, conceitos de reino do lixo e escalada da abstração, Dietmar Kamper (órbita do imaginário e força da imaginação) e Malena Contrera (mediosfera). A respeito do conceito de imaginação, argumentamos com base em Bachelard e, sobre o pensamento por imagens, utilizamo-nos das apreciações de Arnheim e Damásio. Como resultado, portanto, salientamos o modo como a imaginação se configura como arqueologia da imagem baseada em três aspectos: pensamento por imagens, inconsciente ótico e distração. Assim, reafirma-se o papel fundamental da imaginação, e portanto do corpo, em sua relação antropológica com as imagens