User Manual - pancroma

7. Getting Started________________________________________________________________PANCROMA TM The recommended progression for learning to use the program isas follows:1. Understand the satellite data sets that you will be working with by readingthe introductory section of this manual.2. Download Landsat bands 1, 2, 3 and the panchromatic band from one ofthe free archives listed in the PANCROMA TM Help menu.3. Load and display a single grayscale band image.4. Load bands 1, 2 and 3 and display them as a color RGB image.5. Subset the band file set into a small matched set of band andpanchromatic subset files using the four file subset utility provided byPANCROMA TM .6. Pan sharpen the subsetted images.7. Pan sharpen a full Landsat scene.8. Read the Manual and use other PANCROMA TM image processingfeatures.Scan the relevant section of the manual and refer to the appropriate tutorialswhen trying out a new capability for the first time. When reading a section, lookahead to the next section as often both a manual and automatic method areavailable for a utility. The description for the manual method is generally givenfirst and you can save yourself some time if you do not want to make customadjustments or are not interested in what is going on “under the hood”. Theinstructional videos posted at www.PANCROMA.com/videos should also behelpful in understanding the necessary steps. PANCROMA TM has many otheruseful utilities but these exercises will cover the core capabilities of the program.IMPORTANT NOTE: PANCROMA TM will issue information on the band file inputtypes that it expects in the form of message boxes. If you wish to turn thesemessages off, select ‘System’ | ‘File Size Messages’ | ‘Off’ from the main menu.IMPORTANT NOTE: Certain menu selections will initially be disabled. They willbecome enabled as you open input files and process them. For example if youopen a single band file, then all the menu selections appropriate to processing asingle file will become enabled, and all those that require two or more inputbands will be disabled. When you open a second band file, the menu selectionsappropriate for processing a single file will become disabled and those thatrequire two input files will become enabled, etc. When you are done processing adata set, select 'Close Graphics Windows and Reset’ to start over againprocessing a new data set.13