Satellite Image Processing PANCROMA™ White Papers

Satellite Image Processing White Papers

This page offers articles that describe some of the useful PANCROMA pan sharpening, gap-filling and satellite image processing utilities. Additional information can be found in the PANCROMA Instruction Manual available on the Downloads page. Read the introductory Landsat Pan Sharpening article if you are new.

How to remedy Contour Plot Compression to improve multispectral target analysis.

Preparing ASTER L1B TIR temperature contour plots.

Pan Sharpening Landsat 8 Multispectral Bands with EO-1 ALI Panchromatic Band.

Follow on to the previous article: Pan Sharpening Landsat 8 Processed ImagesThis article demonstrates how to pan sharpen your processed Landsat 8 RGB color composite images.

Follow on to the previous article: Landsat 8 Visible Spectrum TOA Reflectance Images using a technique suggested by Mr Guy Serbin.

How to produce visually pleasing true color RGB images from Landsat 8 data. See the article: Landsat 8 Visible Spectrum Images.

A first look at the newly released first Landsat 8 scene.

Spectral Angle Analysis. New method for multispectral target identification.

Landsat 8 Multispectral Analysis. A software developer's perspective.

NAIP Multispectral Analysis. Find out more about this high resolution four band multispectral imagery.

Distance Change™ analysis for Landsat multispectral change detection. Sensitive change detection for deforestation, urban growth, desertification, glacier and ice pack change, agricultural land use and many other uses.

Euclidean Distance Fraction™ analysis offers a powerful alternative to statistical based classification methods using spectral signature matching.

Learn about Landsat Spectral Unmixing, an interesting new approach to multispectral analysis.

FFT Satellite Image Deconvolution.

FFT Image Analysis and Graphical FFT Filtering.

Approximating Landsat Surface Reflectance.

Using the new USGS and ASTER ASCII Spectral File Reader.

Using the new ASTER Nine Band multispectral analysis tools.

Using the PANCROMA Point Spectrum Generator and Euclidean Distance Analyzer to create Cloud, Cloud Shadow and Snow Masks.

An article describing using PANCROMA features to create Terrain Models of Israel.

This article describes the use of PANCROMA multispectral analysis tools for Multispectral Analysis of WorldView2 Data.

• The Landsat Euclidean Distance Analyzer provides another valuable tool for multispectral target discrimination and spectrum matching.

• The PANCROMA Point Spectrum Zoom Tool can make interrogating multispectral band data a lot easier.

• The Landsat Point Spectrum Generator can interrogate a Landsat band file and then generate the spectral signature for your selected areas of interest. The spectrum can then be used with the Spectral Analyzer to highlight the areas of interest and compute the coverage area.

• The Landsat Reflectance Spectral Analyzer can utilize superior Landsat Reflectance data and the USGS Spectral Library for land use and prospecting analyses.

• The Landsat Spectral Analyzer is a powerful semi-automated utility for searching Landsat multispectral data for spectral fingerprints.

• The ELIN Local Optimization algorithm represents another advance in PANCROMA pan sharpening technology. When activated, it produces pan sharpened Landsat images with virtually zero spectral distortion.

• The new TERAS Landsat SLC-Off gap filling utilityuses a localized optimization algorithm to produce gap filled images with close spectral match between source and target images (i.e. you cannot see the stripes after filling).

• Pan Sharpen a Single Multispectral Band and produce superior color pan sharpened images with the new PANCROMA SPECTRAL algorithm.

• Compute Image-Specific Linear Transformations using PANCROMA multiple linear regression and linear transformation utilities.

• Create terrain models using the NASA WorldWind SDK and PANCROMA image processing utilities.

• Compute surface temperatures from Landsat TIR band 6 using the PANCROMA Landsat Surface Temperature utility.

• Find new uses for the excellent Landsat GEOCOVER orthorectified data set using the new PANCROMA Spectral Transformation utility.

• Discover important land use features using Landsat Vegetation Indices.

• Combining ENHG and AJISANE pan sharpening methods.

• Landsat Top of Atmosphere Reflectance

• Measuring Urban Air Quality Using Worldview2 Multiangle Multispectral Band Data using PANCROMA. (Paper submitted to the 2011 Digital Globe Data Fusion Contest.)

• General Landsat Image Registration - how to do it.

• Automatic Landsat Image Registration - how to do it.

• AJISANE Transform pan sharpening algorithm.

• Haze Optimized Transform haze reduction article.

• Landsat Haze Reduction Tutorial.

• Landsat Cloud Mask Tutorial.

• EO-1 ALI Multispectral Data Tutorial.

• IEEE GRSS/Digital Globe Data Fusion Contest Tutorial.

• Landsat and SPOT^® Pan Sharpening.

• Free GEOBASE Archive of SPOT Data suitable for pan sharpening.

• Free SPOT Data from USGS Earth Explorer.

• Information on Pan Sharpening Huge Satellite Image Files using the Windows O/S.

• Histogram Matching pan sharpened images.

• Use of the ENHG and XIONG Algorithms for Correcting Spectral Distortion in pan sharpened images.

• A short article on pan sharpening a difficult Landsat Island Image.

• Pan sharpening Landsat with the SPOT^® panchromatic band.

• Landsat Transfer Method Gap Fill article.

• Landsat SLC-Off Hayes Method Gap Fill article.

• Pan Sharpening Landsat Gap Filled Images article.