Image Data Pre- processing for Pacific Island Countries Poate Degei & Litia Gaunavou
User in Pacific Island Country Image Data Purchase SOPAC - SPC Which data is available? Which data is suitable? Area delineation License agreement Import handling (customs, etc.) Data quality check Safety copy
Pre-Processing Bundle 1.Ortho-Correction 2.Atmospheric Correction 3.Pan-Sharpen “normal” colour 4.Pan-Sharpen false colour IR 5.Vegetation index NIR - RED NDVI = NIR + RED
Image Stitching Stitched Image Image Tiles
Haze Removal Raw LandSat 4 TM (Fiji – 1991)Haze Corrected LandSat 4 TM
Atmospheric Correction Atmospheric Correction View Angle Sensor type Calibration data Sun angle View Angle Sensor type Calibration data Sun angle
Corrected Image Raw ALOS Image (Fiji 2007)ALOS Image + atmospheric correction
Pan-Sharpening Red Green Blue Panchromatic Image Data Blue Green Red Intensity Hue Saturation Hue Multi-spectral IMGPan-sharpened IMG IHS Resolution Merge
Pan-Sharpening WorldView-2: MS DataWorldView-2 PAN data
Pansharpen_123Pansharpen_234 Result
New Satellites, GeoEye-1 & WorldView-2 High geo-accuracy ~ 5m 1.Star tracker 2.Advanced GPS position Ortho Correction required to activate high geo-accuracy
Ortho Correction Orthocorrection requires a DTMOrthocorrection requires a DTM the DTM should have similar scale as image datathe DTM should have similar scale as image data
Inclusion of the Geoid - The sensor captures the image relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid…
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