#Overall interpretation

The top left corner is a small recreation of the whole image. It tells you what each part of the image is for.



It calls itself a "key", suggesting that it's necessary for the rest of the image. The four other black and white parts are binary numbers: 001, 010, 011, 100.

#Step 1

The tiny rectangle at the bottom has 26 pixels. So we can write the English alphabet inside it, and three letters are highlighted in different colors:


This gives a nice interpretation of the patterns above - as Roman numerals!

#Step 2

Now that we have step 1 done...

the colors across the left and top make sense: they're numbers, and the "across" and "down" sections form a nonogram puzzle!

The solution there is:

#Step 3

Okay, so what next?

There are a lot of repeating patterns in the nonogram solution. They look to form 6x6 "cells":

So, we should apply this step's instruction picture:

And then we get...
These form nautical flags! The flags are (by row):
AQHMJA / BQUXHJ / USPFSQ / BXJPMF.

#Step 4

Finally:

These are the seven colors of the rainbow -- they've even been helpfully labelled that way in the transcription. If we interpret these seven colors as numbers from 1 to 7, then Caesar-shift the flags forward by that amount, we get the message: DROPPED RADIO, BUT IT SEEMS OKAY.

Overall interpretation

The top left corner is a small recreation of the whole image. It tells you what each part of the image is for.



It calls itself a "key", suggesting that it's necessary for the rest of the image. The four other black and white parts are binary numbers: 001, 010, 011, 100.

Step 1

The tiny rectangle at the bottom has 26 pixels. So we can write the English alphabet inside it, and three letters are highlighted in different colors:


This gives a nice interpretation of the patterns above - as Roman numerals!

Step 2

Now that we have step 1 done...

the colors across the left and top make sense: they're numbers, and the "across" and "down" sections form a nonogram puzzle!

The solution there is:

Step 3

Okay, so what next?

There are a lot of repeating patterns in the nonogram solution. They look to form 6x6 "cells":

So, we should apply this step's instruction picture:

And then we get...
These form nautical flags! The flags are (by row):
AQHMJA / BQUXHJ / USPFSQ / BXJPMF.

Step 4

Finally:

These are the seven colors of the rainbow -- they've even been helpfully labelled that way in the transcription. If we interpret these seven colors as numbers from 1 to 7, then Caesar-shift the flags forward by that amount, we get the message: DROPPED RADIO, BUT IT SEEMS OKAY.

The middle:

The pattern in the middle seems to go: R, RR, RRR, RO, O, OR...
This gives a nice interpretation of the middle - as Roman numerals!

Now that we have that...

the colors across the left and top make sense: they're numbers, and these form a nonogram puzzle!

The solution there is:

Okay, so what next?

There are a lot of repeating patterns in the nonogram solution. They look to form 6x6 "cells":

And if we use the colors in the bottom middle on these cells, it's much clearer:

These form nautical flags! The flags are (by row):
AQHMJA / BQUXHJ / USPFSQ / BXJPMF.

Finally:

If we use the last grid, in the bottom right, and interpret as numbers from 1 to 7, then Caesar-shift the flags forward by that amount, we get the message: DROPPED RADIO, BUT IT SEEMS OKAY.

#Overall interpretation

The top left corner is a small recreation of the whole image. It tells you what each part of the image is for.



It calls itself a "key", suggesting that it's necessary for the rest of the image. The four other black and white parts are binary numbers: 001, 010, 011, 100.

#Step 1

The tiny rectangle at the bottom has 26 pixels. So we can write the English alphabet inside it, and three letters are highlighted in different colors:
 

This gives a nice interpretation of the patterns above - as Roman numerals!

#Step 2

Now that we have step 1 done...

the colors across the left and top make sense: they're numbers, and the "across" and "down" sections form a nonogram puzzle!

The solution there is:

#Step 3

Okay, so what next?

There are a lot of repeating patterns in the nonogram solution. They look to form 6x6 "cells":

So, we should apply this step's instruction picture:

And then we get...
These form nautical flags! The flags are (by row):
AQHMJA / BQUXHJ / USPFSQ / BXJPMF.

#Step 4

Finally:

These are the seven colors of the rainbow -- they've even been helpfully labelled that way in the transcription. If we interpret these seven colors as numbers from 1 to 7, then Caesar-shift the flags forward by that amount, we get the message: DROPPED RADIO, BUT IT SEEMS OKAY.