Detailed Specifications

1.

Data Format:

a) Raster Data: - GeoTIFF, BIGTIFF, PIX, IMG, DTED, JPEG 2000, BITMAP (.bmp),
Portable Network Graphics (.png), xml.
b) Vector Data: ARC/INFO Interchange, ENVI Vector File, ESRI Geodatabase Feature
Class, shp file
c) Supported Satellite Sensors: CARTOSAT 1 &2, GEOEYE, WORLDVIEW 1 & 2,
IRS Resourcesat
2. Data Visualization Tools:
a) Drag/Drop from: ArcGIS, File System, Windows Explorer.
b) Arbitrary Stretching,
Auto Apply Stretches, Gaussian Stretching, Histogram
Equalization Stretching, Histogram Matching Between Displays, Linear, Piecewise
Linear Stretching, Square Root Stretching, Import/Export ASCII Look Up Tables,
User-Defined Look Up Tables,,
c) Filters like Sharpen, Smooth, Median.
d) True-Color Displays.
e) Spatial and Spectral Pixel Editing, Spatial and Spectral Profiles Sub-Pixel Cursor
Location Unlimited Number of Displays Virtual Mosaic, Vector Overlays & GIS
Capabilities.
3. General image Processing:
a) Buffer Zones around ROIs Classification Images from ROIs Export ROIs to Vectors.
Input ROIs from ASCII
b) Draw Polygons, Polylines, Pixels, Draw ROIs with Interior Spaces (Donuts), ROIs
from Intersection of Other ROIs, Multiple Objects Within One ROI, ROI Definition
via Scatter Plots, Threshold Images to ROI, Merge ROIs, Import ROIs from Vectors,
c) Masking , Mosaic ,Drawing on Display, File, Map Coordinates, Region of Interest,
Other Image Extent,
d) Supervised Classifications :Binary Encoding,
Parallelepiped, Mahalanobis
Distance, Minimum Distance, Maximum Likelihood, Neural Network, Spectral Angle
Mapper, Spectral Information Divergence, Support Vector Machine
e) Unsupervised Classifications: K-Means, ISODATA,
f) Accuracy Assessment: Kappa Coefficient, Confusion Matrix Classification to Vector
Class Statistics
4. Pre Processing and Calibration
a) Apply Gain & Offset, Bad Band Identification Bad Line Replacement Bad Pixel
Replacement, Cross-Track Illumination Correction, Dark Subtraction, Destripe Data,
Empirical Line Calibration
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b) Radiometric Calibrations: MSS, TM, ETM, QuickBird.

c) Registration & Rectification, Associate DEM with Image.
d)
5.

Automatic Ortho-rectification for following: Aerial Photographs (Digital and

Frame), CARTOSAT-1, Generic RPC, GeoEye-1, WorldView & WorldView-2
Mathematics and Statistics

a) Autocorrelation, Band Histograms, Band Math and Spectral Math:

b) Boolean Operators, Trigonometric Functions,
Relational Operators,

Data Type Conversion Functions,

c) Display Statistics: Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Standard Deviation

d) Image Statistics: Band Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Standard
Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Covariance, Correlation Matrices
6.

Deviation,

Development and programming features

a) High level, array-based interpretive language, Language features similar to C, C+

+, Java Graphics functions with dot (.) syntax
b) simplifies the control of objects & properties Automatic object garbage collection
Operator overloading No limit to number of variables, compiled program size,
program file names or structure tags Internationalization routines that convert
strings from one encoding to another
c) Support for large files (>2GB) Call Windows DLLs or UNIX sharable object libraries,
Threaded processing for built-in analysis routines
d) Binary & unary operations Mathematics Image processing Array creation &
manipulation, Export objects into COM/Java, Import COM/Java objects, bridge outof-process server, Run time distribution options with no license fee.
7.

Pre-defined tool for several Image application such as:

a) Change Detection - PCA, Subtractive

b) Pan-Sharpening, Lines of Communication (Water, Roads), Watercraft Finder,
Relative Water Depth
c) Vegetation Delineation and Stress Detection, Spectral Analogues, Terrain
Categorization, Spectral Analyst for Material Identification, Spectral Angle Mapper
(SAM) Spectral Feature Fitting (SFF).
8.

Vector GIS tool :

a) Drag/Drop ArcGIS Layers ArcGIS Layer Attribute, Viewing / Create and edit vector
attributes, import from ArcView shapefiles, ASCII, create contour vectors from
raster data, create new vector layers, create vector boundaries for Countries,
States, Coasts and Rivers.
b) DEM generation tool from optical-stereo data.