Image processing

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Screenshots

• The imagery screenshots page

Georectification

• Tcl/Tk georectification tool is available from the File menu in the GUI.

• i.points, i.vpoints
• i.ortho.photo

A multi-band image may be grouped and georectified with a single set of ground control points. (i.group, i.target, i.rectify)

Clustering

• Where's that table describing this? From the GRASS book help??

MN: yes

• i.class, i.cluster

Filtering

• i.fft, i.ifft, i.pca, r.mfilter, r.neighbors

Enhancement

• i.landsat.rgb
• i.fusion.brovey
• i.oif

Ideas collection for improving GRASS' Image processing capabilities

Below modules need some tuning before being added to GRASS 6. Volunteers welcome.

Spectral unmixing

• i.spec.unmix (source code)

Spectral angle mapping

• i.spec.sam (source code)

Geocoding

• i.points.auto: automated search of GCPs based on FFT correlation (as improved i.points)
• i.homography: geocoding with lines (instead of points) with homography (as improved i.points; it was formerly called i.linespoints)
• support splines from GDAL (see GRASS_AddOns#Imagery_add-ons)

Image classification

• pr: C code for classification problems
• GRASS implementation: i.pr.* source code is available here)

Stereo

This is stand-alone stereo modeling software (DEM extraction etc). Waits for integration into GRASS.

• http://grass.itc.it/outgoing/grass5/stereo-0.2b.tar.gz
• Stereo Tutorial

Lidar LAS format

LAS Tools by M. Isenburg: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/

   las2txt | r.in.xyz in=- fs=" "

(see r.in.xyz)

Improving the existing code

It might be sensible to merge the various image libraries:

• GRASS 6 standard libs:
  • lib/imagery/: standard lib, in use (i.* except for i.points3, i.rectify3)
  • imagery/i.ortho.photo/libes/: standard lib, in use (i.ortho.photo, photo.*)
• GRASS 5 (! only) image3 lib:
  • lib/image3/: never finished improvement which integrated the standard lib and the ortho lib. Seems to provide also ortho rectification for satellite data (i.points3, i.rectify3)
• GRASS 5/6 image proc commands:
  • merge of i.points, i.vpoints, i.points3
  • merge of i.rectify and i.rectify3
  • addition of new resampling algorithms such as bilinear, cubic convolution (take from r.proj or upcoming r.resamp.aggreg)
  • add other warping methods (maybe thin splines from GDAL?)
  • implement/finish linewise ortho-rectification of satellite data