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User Manual - pancroma

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16. Quick Start-Display a Single Grayscale Image_____________________________________________________________Once you have unzipped the data files, you are ready to begin processing. (Note:if you have done this correctly your files will have the suffix ‘.tif’ or ‘.L1G’.Although PANCROMA TM can import .jpg and .bmp format, Landsat images arenot normally archived in this format. You may find .jpg and .bmp useful forstoring your PANCROMA TM processed file.)The simplest PANCROMA TM task is to display and examine a single Landsatgrayscale band file. It is a good idea to do this before trying more complicatedimage processing tasks just to make sure that you have acquired your datacorrectly and understand how to manipulate images in PANCROMA TM . This isdone by selecting ‘File’ | ‘Open’ as shown in the image below and then openingany single GeoTiff (‘.tif’) or L1G file from the sets you downloaded (i.e. any …10;…20; or …30 type file). (You can likewise open the panchromatic (…80) band.This file is larger and takes a bit longer to display.) The menu selectionnecessary to open a file is shown in the figure below.IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are processing Landsat .L1G images, it isnecessary to download the metadata file into the same directory as the band andpanchromatic files. This is because the L1G flat binary format is not capable ofincluding image metadata itself. The companion metadata file has the suffix‘…_MTL.L1G.htm’. Note: the metadata file is available in different formats. Besure to select the HTML version with the file suffix .mht’. (If PANCROMA TM does30

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