Imagery refers to raster based datasets acquired from sensors on satellites or aircraft.

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ESRI imagery service that is WMS Compliant

I want to use the ESRI free online imagery service http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer But I want a service that is WMS compliant. Is there a version of ...
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How to detect which Quickbird data product?

I have some Quickbird imagery, for further processing I would like to know what kind of data product are these images. The imagery only has an additional text file containing some order numbers. ...
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Is there a tutorial explaining the basics of WMS?

I'm building some software that needs to download satellite map images to display behind some survey charts. I understand that, to download these images, I need access to a Web Map Service. The only ...
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Atmospheric Calibration for Landsat 7 ETM+ Gap Filling

This is for thesis work involving mapping of above-ground mangrove forest biomass using Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery. I am assessing correlations between biomass with vegetative indices, e.g. NDVI, and ...
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Issues calculating NDVI from ASTER

I'm having an issue with ASTER data. I have two mosaics; one for 2008 and one for 2012. Both are composed of 4 ASTER scenes and the scenes are all from the same two month period (i.e. no seasonal ...
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gdal_merge.py with single band raster

I'm trying to mosaic the True Marble world imagery 250M geotiffs using gdal_merge.py though one of them doesn't have RGB bands like the rest and gdal_merge fails (same number of bands is listed as a ...
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How to adjust online basemap to Arcmap

How can I adjust the online basemap imagery file to our existing ArcMap data. Below are steps I perform to add the basemap data. I Added basemap from "Add Data From GIS Online" in the file menu and ...
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Pictometry Accuracy and/or Alternative

I'm looking for some insights into the accuracy (x,y,z) of oblique imagery from Pictometry in terms of providing accurate measurements for property evaluation. Is the high cost of this product ...
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Can't open ArcGrid created by Seamless viewer from NED [closed]

I have been unable to add elevation rasters generated by, and downloaded from the USGS's Seamless viewer, http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.php from the National Elevation Dataset ...
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How to crop a satellite image?

I am wondering how to or if it is possible to crop a SPOT satellite image (the image has black edges) using ArcMap 10 and if so how do you do this. I appreciate any advice.
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Tasseled Cap Transformation Rapid Eye

I want to do tasseled cap transformation on rapid eye data. the main question would be about the parameters which are used. Somebody has a suggestion?
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Is there a source for leaf-off aerial imagery?

I am looking for leaf-off imagery for Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. 1m leaf-off imagery would be ideal, although any substitute would be helpful. I need fairly high resolution imagery to distinguish ...
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Which Software can derive building footprints from imagery?

I'm looking for a software solution that can process large areas of imagery to produce building footprints. For the area of interest, I can source either satellite stereo pairs or oblique imagery. I ...
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trouble with i.landsat.toar failing to identify satellite

I am trying to use the i.landsat.toar tool on L7 bands. I have tried to use both the MTL and MTLold, but no matter what I try, it returns "Failed to identify satellite." What am I doing wrong?
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How to perform Neural Network Classification?

I'm using ENVI 4.8.There are some problems on parameters for Neural Network in Envi.(Envi-Classification-Supervised-Neural net) There are 5 bands and 12 classes that i have used for my study . The ...
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Free Imagery WMS Feeds in QGIS

I was wondering if anyone knows of a free WMS of imagery that I could use within QGIS. The imagery does not have to be high resolution (Blue Marble even). I would like to have a base imagery feed ...
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What countries allow commercial use of drones to collect aerial imagery?

Currently the US government forbids commercial use of drones to collect aerial imagery. The FAA is supposedly reviewing this to determine what sorts of restrictions are needed to allow this to happen ...
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Place image without using points in QGIS

I am trying to find a GIS software that does this, so I am trying QGIS but other suggestions are welcome. I have a basic shp boundary such as a rectangle. I want to be able to import an unreferenced ...
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Where can I get aerial images for commercial use?

Related question: Free aerial map images for commercial use - Alternatives to Google maps I'm looking for a service that will allow me to download images at up to 1 meter resolution. Currently our ...
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Coordinate system in aerial imagery

I am calculating WGS84 coordinates of points in an aerial image, given the WGS84 coordinates of the center of the image and the ground distance width and height (calculated from altitude and lens ...
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How to perform enhancement operations on an satellite imagery in QGIS?

I am a new user of QGIS please suggest how to perform image enhancement operations on an satellite imagery like ratioing, contrast stretching, edge engancement, filtering etc. in QGIS?
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Where to download 4 band NAIP imagery?

I seem to recall USGS Earthexplorer providing current and historic 4 band NAIP imagery over the last few years. It appears that these data have been migrated to the National Map. However, the ...
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How to programatically replace ArcGIS Online image with new imagery in mxd's?

I have many mxds that previously used ArcGIS Online Bing imagery. I want to replace those with newly purchased imagery. I know I need to use the arcpy.mapping.MapDocument module to do this though not ...
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Raster satellite images for QGIS

When I try to apply a downloaded GIS satellite (t=rimage to Quantum, it doesn't seem to open properly. There must be a step-by step description on how this would be done effectively. Can anyone tell ...
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gdal_warp of multiple rasters keeping maxium intensity value

I have multiple rasters which overlap eachother geospatially but do not completely occupy the same space. I can combine them with gdalwarp like: gdalwarp -s_srs EPSG:4326 *.tif larger_output.tif ...
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How to easily import aerial imagery into gvSIG?

I have used ArcView GIS 3.x for years. I have decided to try some of the free GIS desktop software. I am now trying gvSIG. One feature I was hoping for was the importation of aerial imagery relatively ...
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Extract certain area of contours/satellite images

I have 2 satellite images (jpeg2000 format) and 2 xyz-files from the same area. I am trying to extract certain region from the area including contour lines and the satellite image in order to import ...
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How many stereo satellite imagery required to prepare DEM of an area?

I want to know how to find the nos. of scene of stereo CARTISAT-1 data required to prepare DEM of an area(say 84000 sq km)? any suggestion/solution/calculation?
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How to know the required scene required to cover an area?

I want to know how to find the nos. of scene of LISS 4 data required to cover an area(say 84000 sq km)? any suggestion/solution/calculation?
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How to equalise colour, brightness and contrast across several scanned paper maps

I am a vectors guy mostly, but for a current project I need to work with a bunch of old scanned paper maps (ww2 bomb damage maps for London, if your interested!) We scanned and georeferenced the ...
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Why does publishing a Map Service from MXD turn Imagery Grey

When creating a map service from an MXD I'm running into an issue where my imagery is turning completely grey. I start with an MXD which has my mosaicked image and I publish it to a map service (no ...
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Automated testing for GIS apps

There are several commercial and opensource tools for regression automation. While many of them could be employed to test GIS apps, they fall short, at times, dealing with the unique characteristics ...
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How to identify image footprints of an aerial photograph

I need a tool that will take aerial images with Lat, Long, and Alt in their EXIF data and produce foot prints of the images. We need to verify that the images cover the photographed area with proper ...
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Is there a way of viewing a photo has a point tag from Photo2shape in QGIS?

Is there a way to view images (photos) that have location point from Photo2shape by clicking on the point in QGIS?
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Where can I download free satellite imagery of Cambodia for offline use?

I am an entry level GIS user - I have had one semester of GIS in college. I have successfully downloaded raster satellite imagery from Seamless (tiff files) for my class project. Now I am trying to ...
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Alternative vegetation indices

I have been using NDVIs with limited success to identify trees in the central Great Plains region of the USA. The problem I have been encountering is that reflectance from farm fields/pastures have ...
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Visualization of satellite image - directly in python

Is there any way (a package or what not), to visualize a geotiff image directly in Python? I don't want to use ENVI or ArcGIS or anything else. Thank you in advance.
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Convert 3-band raster imagery to distinct vector zones in ArcGIS

So much like the title says I would like to convert a 3-band infrared image TIF file of vegetation into distinct vector feature zones using ArcGIS. I'm guessing the only way to do this is with ...
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Creating a multispectral image from scratch

I want to make a multispectral image from cero to do some tests on it. Something really simple like 5 completely uniform bands with salt and pepper noise on them or a square of different values at the ...
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Change Detection on bitemporal multispectral images - data simulation

I want to try several "backgrounds" for change detection on bitemporal images (satellite images of the same place but in different moments in time). Images consist of 5 bands. I have python ...
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Wavelet vs Discrete compression for imagery

What is the main reasons to choose wavelet (jp2, sid, ecw) instead of discrete (JPEG) compression methods for raster data? Lets limit this question to aerial imagery and lossy compression. Why ...
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Finding Satellite Imagery For Use Without Internet Connection

So, I am not a GIS expert. I just write software and I've done some work with ArcMap, ArcGIS Server, and FalconView. What I need is world wide satellite imagery I can use on a local machine. Street ...
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Purpose of building footprints

What are the uses (public and private industry) of building footprints? I'm trying to figure out how polygon building footprints can be used. i.e. are they used for determining tax liabilities, ...
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Looking for high resolution (1m or better) aerials for Turkey

Would prefer free but under a couple hundred dollars is also doable. It would be nice to have actual tif, sid, etc. files but a WMS would also work... using ArcGIS 10 Would also consider any of the ...
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Are there any naming conventions for aerial imagery?

Do GIS projects involving high resolution NAIP quarter quad imagery typically use the USGSID code and qq (e.g. 3910232ne) or the GNIS code and qq (e.g. 39102e1ne) to organize data? I can't seem to ...
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Moving files in OS street view? [closed]

I have selected all the TFW files. How do I 'move' them to the Street View SX > data > sx folder ? There is no copy and paste facility and not sure whether I need to extract them?? (Never used this ...
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Combine aerial imagery pictures to create a layer

We are looking for software or a web service that we can put in pictures we took using our weather balloon to create a single image, that we can use as a layer for our GIS project. Preferably free, or ...
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Where can i download a good World image in GeoTIFF?

I can either be from MERIS (ESA) or from MODIS (Nasa). I already reached these sites: http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download ...
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What exactly is 'anti-aliased image generation'?

I tried to google it, but didn't quite get it. Any help and/or examples? Thank you!
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GDAL Brightness RGB Contrast Gamma Saturation

I've not had much experience with modifying imagery, I've recently been playing with GDAL for some batch processing of geo-referenced images, I've been supplied with some imagery in ECW format that is ...

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