Remote Sensing Tools

The release of Global Mapper 9.01 includes an option to export any loaded data to Google Maps tiles. The process is very simple — just load your vector or imagery data (or all the layers you want to include), click through Tools → Configuration → Projection and choose the Mercator projection and the Google Maps […]

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Recently, I added a feature for image viewing when thumbnails are present in the content, which is a plug-in for WordPress called LightBox 2. By default, a user would have clicked an image preview thumbnail and the large image would view in a plain browser window. I had actually implemented a version of LightBox on […]

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I was looking for a way to incorporate Asides posts in my WordPress template, and came across a few options. Unfortunately, none of the options that I found would accomodate the way that I have my AdSense ads recursing through the loop to figure out at what position to place them. (Unfortunately, you have a […]

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Two of the core value-added plug-ins that come with Remote Sensing Tools, allow for the ability to convert false-color composite imagery into pseudo natural-color imagery. Whether it’s Landsat imagery composited using the 7,4,2 bands as RGB, or CIR imagery, Quickbird 4,3,2 or Aster 3n,2,1 band composited imagery — the algorithms in these plug-ins will allow […]

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With the embedding capability for publishing Google Maps, a common need for publishing a Google Map might be to provide the following:

Address information for a business location, or several locations

Providing directions to or from a business location

Displaying a route of destination-points for a trip or tour
Displaying points of interest you’ve visited

This is done by adding […]

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Typically, pan-sharpening in Remote Sensing / GIS has been considered the domain of those programs and applications. But, the reality is — that pan-sharpening is a fairly simple process to achieve in a program such as Adobe Photoshop®, if you have the appropriate processing algorithms.
The following is a typical procedure for pan-sharpening using the Convolution […]

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Included with the distribution package of Remote Sensing Tools, is a list of the functions for each plugin. I’ve decided to post this information here as well, so that anyone can get an introductory concept of the methods included.

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In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series — we discussed how software and utilities specific to working with geospatial imagery allow us to work-around the incompatibilities with popular image editors that do not support geospatial formats. However, there is a unique plugin that’s been designed for Adobe® Photoshop® to give users the ability […]

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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the common use and options for a set of utilities to handle Geotiff metadata tags. This allowed us to be able to output and store that data in text format for later retrieval, so that we could then be able to install it into […]

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In the first tutorial, Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1; we went through the steps of using the listgeo and geotifcp commandline utilities to dump the metadata of a Geotiff .tif file, and how to re-stuff the metadata contained within the output text file back into a .tif image saved out of Photoshop®. But what if […]

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The Geotiff (or GeoTIFF) format, is a TIFF image that has special geospatial metadata tags in the header. Unfortunately, most industry standard image processing, manipulation programs and readers do not natively support geospatial metadata in TIFF images. Such examples are Photoshop®, and other similar programs. What can we do then in order to work with […]

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