1. The Tasseled Cap Transformation CHAPTER 11 BAND TRANSFORMATIONS
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2. The Tasseled Cap
mature
vegetation
MSS6
dry soil (bright)
The variation of MSS pixel positions corresponding to growing vegetation,
as related to the tasseled cap transformation
line of soils (brightness)
MSS5
MSS6
MSS4
soils
green
yellow
humid soil (dark)
MSS5
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3. The Tasseled Cap The planes and axes of the
Greeness
Plane of
vegetation
Brightness
Plane of soils
Wetness
The planes and axes of the
tasseled cap transformation
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4. A. Dermanis BANDS OF THE LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER TC Bands MSS4
Brightness
0.433
0.632
0.586
0.264
Greenness
-0.290
-0.562
0.600
0.491
Yellowness
-0.829
0.522
-0.039
0.194
Nonesuch
0.233
0.012
-0.543
0.810
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5. BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER
Bande TC
TM1
TM2
TM3
TM4
TM5
TM7
Brightness
0.3037
0.2793
0.4743
0.5585
0.5082
0.1863
Greenness
0.7243
0.0840
Wetness
0.1509
0.1973
0.3279
0.3406
0.7112
Haze
0.8832
0.0130
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6. A color composite (R=1, G=2, B=3) of the tasseled cap bands.
TC 1: Brightness
TC 2: Greenness
TC 3: Wetness
A color composite (R=1, G=2, B=3)
of the tasseled cap bands.
Blue corresponds to “wetness”,
green to “greeness” and red to brightness.
Water and fresh vegetation are depicted in a natural way.
Light violet (almost white) corresponds to newly planted rice fields,
violet corresponds to grown ones.
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