Prompt

Test your abilities to extract metadata.

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Tutorial Video

Walk-Through

This challenge will give you experience with extracting metadata from an image file. You are given an image with contains metadata and you will need to use a metadata viewer to help answer the questions. You can see the image provided below:

A quick Google search for “metadata viewer” will provide several websites that can be used to view the metadata from the image.

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Tip: Make sure you’re using a reputable tool and don’t place too much confidence on a random website you found. You can always compare your results from multiple sources to verify that your answers are correct.

You can then upload your image to the view to get a table containing the metadata information. We’ve used metadata2go.com in our example here, but other tools or sites will work as well.

We’ve censored some of the fields so you can practice using a metadata viewer

Once you have this table, you will just need to find the corresponding field to get the answer to each question.

Questions

When was the image created? (Round to the nearest minute)

See the “Create Date” field from the metadata viewer

What is the image size in pixels? (ex: 800x600)

See the “Image Size” field from the metadata viewer

What is the make of the camera that took the picture?

See the “Make” field from the metadata viewer

What is the model of the camera that took the picture?

See the “Model” field from the metadata viewer

What is the exposure time for the picture? (ex: 1/200)

See the “Exposure Time” field from the metadata viewer

Where was the picture taken? Please use only positive numbers with 4 decimal places. (ex: 45.4000N, 75.6667W)

See the “GPSPosition” field from the metadata viewer

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Depending on your metadata viewer, you may need to convert the GPS coordinates from DMS (degree, minutes, seconds) format to decimal format. The FCC has a tool that can do the conversion.