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User Manual - pancroma

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Each color and NIR band channel contains only 25% of the pixels and visualinformation as compared to the panchromatic channel. If there were a way tocombine the color information in these channels with the higher resolution imageinformation in the panchromatic channel then it would be possible to producecolor images at the higher (15m) resolution. There is a way, and it is what thePANCROMA TM algorithms do: produce a color 15m resolution RGB image bycombining RGB color information in ETM+ bands 1, 2, 3 and image information inthe panchromatic channel using appropriate image fusion techniques. The resultis a 15m color image with colors that can closely approach those of the lowerresolution images produced by combining the band data. Because Landsatcovers virtually the entire earth, you can produce such images for any area thatinterests you. And unlike image data extracted from sources such as GoogleEarth, Landsat is copyright free.15

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