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Panchromatic Image Sharpening

This document provides steps to pan-sharpen a Landsat 8 multispectral image with the panchromatic band using ERDAS IMAGINE software. It involves using the Modified IHS Resolution Merge tool to combine the higher resolution panchromatic band with the multispectral bands while maintaining the RGB information. The user must select the input files, sensor parameters, resampling technique, output file settings, and processing options before running the pan-sharpening tool. Once complete, the original and sharpened images can be compared.

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Panchromatic Image Sharpening

This document provides steps to pan-sharpen a Landsat 8 multispectral image with the panchromatic band using ERDAS IMAGINE software. It involves using the Modified IHS Resolution Merge tool to combine the higher resolution panchromatic band with the multispectral bands while maintaining the RGB information. The user must select the input files, sensor parameters, resampling technique, output file settings, and processing options before running the pan-sharpening tool. Once complete, the original and sharpened images can be compared.

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PANCHROMATIC IMAGE SHARPENING

This tutorial provides steps to pan-sharpen the Landsat 8 multispectral bands with the 15-meter
panchromatic band, without losing the RGB information from the original multispectral three-
band 30-meter composite.

Landsat 8 data are acquired at three different resolutions. The multispectral bands (bands 1-7,
9) are collected at 30 meters, the thermal band (band 10 and 11) is collected at 100 meters, and
the panchromatic band (band 8) is collected at 15 meters. There are a 3 methods within ERDAS
IMAGINE that enable pan-sharpening. We will try one in this tutorial.
Open ERDAS IMAGINE

1. Click Raster tab > Pan Sharpen > Modified IHS Resolution Merge. The
Modified IHS Resolution Merge dialog opens.
2. In High Resolution Input File field, click to open a File Selector. Navigate to your
high resolution panchromatic image (2017 band 8) and select it.
3. In Multispectral Input File field, click to open a File Selector. Navigate to your
stack 2017 Landsat multispectral image and select it.
4. In Hi-Res Spectral Settings section, click the dropdown arrow to select the sensor
name that captured the data. In this tutorial, select Landsat 8 panchromatic. The
CellArray reports various values about the wavelength associated with the selected
layer of the High Resolution file.
5. In Multispectral Spectral Settings section, click the dropdown arrow to select the
sensor name that captured the data. select Landsat 8 Multispectral.

The CellArray reports various values about the wavelength associated with the selected
layer of the multispectral file. Details are discussed in the Help topic for the Modified
IHS Resolution Merge dialog.

6. In Resampling Technique section, keep the default Bilinear Interpolation.

Specify Layer Combination and Output Options

7. Click Layer Selection tab and click the dropdown arrow under Layer Combination
Method to select False Colour IR layers of the multispectral file shall be mapped to
the 3 output layers. This indicates input layer 4 (red), input layer 3 (green), and input
layer 2 (blue).

Keep the other options at default settings.

8. Click Output tab.


9. In Output File field, click to open a File Selector and navigate to your working
directory to store the output file.
10. Click Files of type field to select .img as the raster file formats for the output file.
11. Enter a name for the output file such as merge_mod_ihs
12. In this example, raster Data Type remains at the default Unsigned 16 bit (same as input
files).
13. In Processing Options section, click the checkbox for Ignore Zeros in Output
Statistics to omit pixel values of zero when statistics are calculated for the output file.
14. Click OK.

The Process List dialog opens, tracking the job progress. When the job is complete, close the
dialog. Open all original image as well as the sharpened image. in individual 2D Views and
compare. Tile the viewers to have the viewers adjacent to each other

Answer the following questions


Q 1: which day was the image acquired?

Q2: What is the difference between the originally corrected image and the pan-sharpened
image.

Q3: what is the pixel size of the sharpened image?


IMAGE SUBSETTING USING SHAPEFILE.
A typical Landsat scene covers an area of about 185km by 185km. At times, it makes sense to
cut out a subset of this larger image to simplify your analysis and focus on the portion of the
scene that is of primary interest. This is quite easy.

Before we can start subsetting our area of interest, all corrections must be done. Visit last
semester’s tutorials and perform radiometric correction on it i.e. atmospheric correction. After
the corrections are made let’s try to perform our subset.
Start ERDAS Imagine

Open your corrected pan sharpened image. Also open ‘’greater _Accra utm’’ a shapefile from
the dataset given to you for this exercise.
At the content side of ERDAS, arrange your layers for the shapefile to be on top
Click inside your shapefile in your viewer (Nb. The colour of the shapefile turns yellow)

Go to home and click on ‘’paste from selected object’’ tool

An AOI will be created around the shapefile.


Click inside the shapefile again and now you will see that a box will be selected around the
shapefile (leave it as it is)
Now go to raster on your menu bar. Click on ‘subset & chip’>> create subset image

Next to Input file field, click open file icon.

Navigate to the corrected image and Click OK.


Next to Output file field, save the output image as “Accra_subset” and Click okay twice.
Click “AOI” button (bottom centre of subset screen) and Select viewer button, Click OK.

Click OK again to initiate subset modeller. When the job is 100% done
View your subset image in the viewer and answer the following question

Ques: What is the importance of sudsetting?

Ques: When can one perform subset?

Ques: What is the difference between subset and masking?

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