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User Manual - pancroma

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3. Why PANCROMA TM ?________________________________________________________________• For most of the world, Landsat is the only unrestricted license, no-cost,full-coverage satellite imagery available 1 . PANCROMA TM increases thevalue of this data by doubling the resolution of Landsat color imagery,calibrating and deblurring. (PANCROMA TM can pan sharpen images fromother satellite platforms as well).• Landsat data is multispectral. Landsat provides the only widely availablefree source of valuable multispectral data for land use, mineralprospecting, and other applications. PANCROMA TM image processingutilities increase the usefulness of this data.• All of the Landsat data collected after 2003 contains missing data in theform of unsightly stripes across the images. PANCROMA TM can recoverthese images and synthesize useful images from this data.• PANCROMA TM can also pan sharpen and process data from otherpopular sources, for example EO-1, SPOT, Digital Globe, ASTER andGeoEye.• PANCROMA TM offers a selection of valuable utilities for pre and postprocessing satellite images.1 Note: Google and Microsoft provide satellite data coverage for most of the world. However,use of this data is restricted subject to the terms and conditions of the provider. Google forexample allows free use of their imagery as long as the data is continuously available viaInternet access and as long as no access fee is charged. Google uses image watermarks tohelp enforce their ownership rights. Landsat data on the other hand is copyright-free.8

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