Contents

• Introduction
  • Installing and Running InfoPACK
  • The Licence
  • How to Contact Us
  • Acknowledgements
  
  
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
  • Interpretation of SAR Images
  • The Formation of SAR Images
  • Frequency Bands
  • Polarisation
  • The Number of Looks in an Image
  • The Number of Looks and InfoPACK
  • Multi-dimensional Images
  • Correlated Images
  • Reducing the Image Size
  • Sources of SAR Data
  
  
• Image File Formats
  • The InfoSAR format
  • Built-In File Conversion Facilities
    • File Import: Conversion to NetCDF Format
    • File Export
  • General File Formats
    • Using a .aux file
    • Using a virtual file
    • File Import Utility
  
  
• Image Processing with InfoPACK
  • Segmentation
    • The segment routine
    • The merge routine
    • The texseg routine
    • The colseg routine
  • Classification
    • The classify routine
    • The mask_stats routine
  • Area Change Detection
    • The change_detection routine
    • The change_detection_position routine
  • Detecting Edges
    • The scanedge routine
    • The edge routine
  • Speckle Reduction
    • The despeckle routine
  • Point Object Detection
    • The cfar routine
  • References
  
  
• Bibliography
• Using the InfoPACK GUI
  • Introduction
  • Starting The InfoPACK GUI
    • Windows
    • Unix/Linux
  • The Main InfoPACK Menus
    • The File Menu
    • The Tools Menu
    • The Image Menu
  • The OpenEV Image Viewer
  • Using the InfoPACK Shell Window
    • Colourisation
    • Indentation
    • Command History
    • Function Call Tips
    • Class Call Tips
  • Developing InfoPACK Scripts
  • The IDLE Integrated Development Environment
  
  
• Case Studies
  • Segmentation and Classification of Intensity Images
    • Introduction
    • Comparison of classification methods
    • Conclusions
  • Segmentation and Classification of Multiple Intensity Images
    • Introduction
    • Comparison of classification methods
    • Conclusions
  • Change Detection between Intensity Images
    • Introduction
    • Comparison of classification methods
    • Conclusions
  • Temporal Signatures of Intensity Images
    • Introduction
    • Classification methods
    • Conclusions
  • Handling Correlated Images
    • Introduction
    • Correlation and Segmentation
    • Speckle correlation properties
    • Resampling applied to the original intensity image
    • Segmentation: Conclusions
  • Correlated Images and Despeckling
    • Resampling to remove speckle correlations
    • Conclusions
  • An Example: Segmenting and Despeckling a Large Image
    • Segmentation
    • Despeckling
    • Conclusions
  • Segmentation and Classification of Polarimetric Data
    • Introduction
    • Segmentation performance
    • Comparison of classification methods
    • Conclusion
  
  
• InfoPACK High Level Routine Documentation
  • User Interface
    • Scripts and Functions
    • GIS Information
    • File I/O
    • Online Help
  • Common Parameters
    • Image dimensions
    • The Intensity Flag
    • Memory Management Options
  • Documentation Conventions
  • High Level Routines
    • segment
    • texseg
    • merge
    • colseg
    • edge
    • classify
    • change_detection
    • change_detection_position
    • despeckle
    • filter
    • filter_bt, filter_det, filter_enl, filter_gorder, filter_korder, filter_mean, filter_var
    • scanedge
    • cfar
  
  
• Low Level and Utility Routine Documentation
  • Documentation Conventions
  • Image Manipulation Routines
    • add
    • between
    • decimate
    • divide
    • fill
    • fill_gammarand
    • fill_gaussrand
    • fill_unirand
    • log10
    • loge
    • magnify
    • median
    • multiply
    • scalar_add
    • scalar_divide
    • scalar_multiply
    • shrink
    • sqrt
    • square
    • subtract
    • threshold
  • File Handling Facilities
    • ascii2nc
    • extract
    • gdal_translate
    • gisload
    • gissave
    • insert
    • layer_combine
    • layer_split
    • load
    • makebitmap
    • nc2ascii
    • nc2raw
    • numload
    • raw2nc
    • save
    • totiff
  • Image Information Routines
    • gdalinfo
    • histogram
    • mask_stats
    • stats
  
  
• InfoSAR Conventions for NetCDF
  • Dimensions
  • Variables
  • Attributes
    • Global Attributes
    • Variable Attributes