Joint Research Centre (European Commission) · 2015 · 33 citations · 0 references
ComputingEarth SciencesGeoinformaticsGeographic Information SystemsGeomaticsRemote SensingGeospatial Computer VisionLand Cover Change DetectionLand Cover ClassificationLand Cover MappingLand UseLand Use Change DetectionGeographic Information System (Gis) AnalysisGeographic Information System (Gis) MappingGeographic Information Systems (Gis)Geographic Information Systems (Gis) ApplicationsGis-based Landscape AnalysisLand Cover AnalysisLand Mapping
Did you ever try to produce a reliable land cover map from Earth Observation data? How many steps are involved and how many different tools do you need? Did you succeed in a reasonable amount of time?\nIMPACT toolbox offers a combination of elements of remote sensing, photo interpretation and processing technologies in a portable and stand-alone GIS environment. Image extraction, layerstack, radiometric calibration, normalization, mosaicking, automatic classification and segmentation could be easily performed while a user-friendly environment offers map editing and validation features.\nBased on open sources technologies, IMPACT relies on GeoExt, OpenLayers and Mapserver for the graphical user interface and raster/vector rendering; EO data processing is carried out by GDAL and Python. Single-date or multi-date segmentation is performed throughout Baazt segmenter libraries (Inpe's TerraAIDA Operators).