Detailed results of the activities have been already published
at the following symposia:
a) the FMP-Symposium in Hannover in August 1977
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b) the Image Processing Symposium in Graz, Austria in October 1977
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2. Project Stages
The various stages of the project concern
1) data acquisition
4 types of imagery have been used:
a) Aerial photography using a Hasselblad-cam era with
IR-false colour film and various filters.
b) metric aerial photography of the format 23 x 23 cm on
colour film.
c) M?s Scanner images from aircraft in 11 channels
d) Landsat scanner images from orbital heights in 4 channels
2) data processing
The images have first been subjected to a visual quicklook.
Those, which showed promise for further investigation
were viewed in transparencies on the ISI-150 image analyzer
system for a first analysis. The image analyzer permitted
to produce density slices in colour coding, to mixe (false)
colour images out of 3 spectral bands and to do simple
image processing by adding, substracting, multiplying,
dividing two images by taking logarithms or exponents
of images.
A detailed analysis is possible, if the images are available
in digital form. Photography can for this purpose be digitized
onto tape utilizing the readsystem of the Optronics P-1700 device.
The analysis is carried out on the general purpose computer. Due
to current practical difficulties in managing the computer
operations efficiently without time delays a future interactive
system in operation of the P-1700 is envisaged. It consists of an
enlarged ISL computer attached to the P-1700 and a Comtal image
storage and display unit, sufficient to permit an interactive
operation, experimenting with various image processing modules.
A software developments first adaptions of the Jet Propulsion Labora-
tory's Vicar System and Purdue's LARSYS-Package were forseen.
Experiences showed, that it is better to compile own software, which
has since been implemented. Special software has been devised in
geometric restitution of imagery.
The general image processing software BIVER consists of about 70
modules incorporating various image processing tasks from grey level
filtering to maximum likelihood classification programs of multi-
spectral data.
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