Image Processing with InfoPACK

This chapter illustrates how to use the main InfoPACK routines, and some of the results that can be achieved, to show what they do and how the parameters affect the results. Lengthier Case Studies, geared more towards specific applications, are given in Chapter 6.

As described in section 1.1, InfoPACK routines can be accessed via the InfoPACK GUI, from the command line by running Python scripts and from within the Python shell by executing Python functions. Processing using the GUI is described in Chapter 5 whilst complete Python script and function specifications are given in appendices A and B.

Many of the test images used in this chapter are simulated 3-look SAR data, but InfoPACK can be used on SAR data from any source and with any size of looks measure, and also on optical images: see section 6 for examples. Sample data is included with the InfoPACK distribution in the images subdirectory of the main installation directory. Also located there is a README file that provides in some detail how to process the sample data with several of the routines described in this chapter.