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User Manual - pancroma

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will be shown at the bottom of the map display. To view the area selected clickon a magnification block closer to the negative side to zoom out.You may see a message that there are more than 600 images in the selection orelse that there are no images in the selection, even though the screen may showonly a few images. This can usually be remedied by repeatedly clicking on therubber band or arrow icon, which will keep redrawing the image. Eventually, youwill see a notification that informs you that there are something like 44 images inthe selection.Once your images are available, you can select the ‘Preview and Download’icon. This will display a page with a list of Landsat data files. Under the ‘Type’column you will see the file type indicated, either GeoTiff or L1G. Either format isOK. Clicking on the ‘ID’ heading will select the file and display a thumbnail imageof the area of coverage. When you find the image you want, click on the‘Download’ button.A page containing a listing of the band, image and metadata files will then bepresented. The file name will look something like‘p174r084_7t20010711_z34_nn10.tif.gz’. You will need to download the files thatcontain the …nn10…; …nn20…; …nn30…; and …nn80… (for GeoTiff) or…’_B10…’; ‘…_B20…’ ‘…B30…’ and ‘…_B80…’ (for L1G) suffixes. (Landsatfiles are usually archived in either GeoTiff or L1G (which is actually a flat binaryformat. PANCROMA TM can read both.) These are the band1, band2, band3 andpanchromatic bands, respectively.The files are zipped to save storage space. If you are downloading an L1G file,you will also need the metadata file. (Because the format is flat binary, theformat has no ability to contain any metadata. This is stored in a separate ASCIIfile). The file has the suffix ‘.mht’. You will need this file as PANCROMA TMextracts important metadata from it during processing. It contains lots ofadditional useful information about your dataset that you can inspect in any wordprocessor or text editor.You should download these files into any convenient directory on your computer.After downloading the files, extract the band data using an unzipping utility like‘Winzip’ or the free GNU utility called ‘jZip’ available at http://www.jzip.com/.20

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