| Re: ENVI ; My Question(s) [message #27103] |
Tue, 09 October 2001 22:05  |
Monchaya Piboon
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2001
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Hello all,
Thanks for replying me, Mark.
Here are my questions.
First, I'm using ENVI to analyze AVHRR images (HRPT format level 1b).
The images are downloaded from www.saa.noaa.gov . I need to do some
analysis over a small area (about 2x2 degree ), with specific latitude
and latitude.
(1) The website always yields images larger than your search area, so
I need to
find a way to narrow the image down to that specific area.
(2) The problem is I need to know how the pixels are corresponding
to latitude and
longitude values. When I read the header file using AVHRR utilities, the
header
showed correct 4 geographic corner values. But I could not find a way to
use those
values to correctly rectify the images.
(3) How do I georeference the images? Is there any way to
georeference, using only
geographic corner values? I don't have to get absolutely correct map
projections.
As long as I can estimate the average pixel values over that small area,
it's fine.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Mon
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Monchaya ("Mon") Piboon
Graduate Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 54-625
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel. (617) 253-1909
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| Re: ENVI ; My Question(s) [message #27182 is a reply to message #27103] |
Fri, 12 October 2001 09:44  |
Aaron Birenboim
Messages: 24
Registered: October 2000
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Monchaya Piboon wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks for replying me, Mark.
>
> Here are my questions.
> First, I'm using ENVI to analyze AVHRR images (HRPT format level 1b).
> The images are downloaded from www.saa.noaa.gov . I need to do some
> analysis over a small area (about 2x2 degree ), with specific latitude
> and latitude.
> (1) The website always yields images larger than your search area, so
> I need to
> find a way to narrow the image down to that specific area.
> (2) The problem is I need to know how the pixels are corresponding
> to latitude and
> longitude values. When I read the header file using AVHRR utilities, the
> header
> showed correct 4 geographic corner values. But I could not find a way to
> use those
> values to correctly rectify the images.
I used to do this for a living.
There was a NOAA publication that described the
mathematics. It is rather involved.
We used SGP4 ephemeris to locate the satellite by time,
the used attitude information and time to draw a Line of Sight (LOS)
from the satellite to the geosphere, and solved for lat/lon.
Do they give you pixel numbers in addition to corner lat/lon values?
If so, you could reverse-engineer to satellite position and
viewing angles.
It all depends on how accurate you want it.
> (3) How do I georeference the images? Is there any way to
> georeference, using only
> geographic corner values? I don't have to get absolutely correct map
> projections.
> As long as I can estimate the average pixel values over that small area,
> it's fine.
If they give you corner locations... perhaps they are re-sampling
the data to a standard map projection. If this is the case,
you can simple invert the map projection.
Transverse mercator would be a good choice for AVHRR, since
its fairly close to the way the data is actually collected.
--
Aaron Birenboim | Black holes are where G-d divided
Albuquerque, NM | by zero.
aaron@boim.com |
boim.com/~aaron | -Steven Wright
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