MiraMon at 22nd EARSeL Symposium presenting some Remote Sensing works.
MiraMon is a powerful as an easy to use GIS software but it is also a Remote Sensing
application. There are some classical modules that demonstrates it:
- Georeferencing is possible in order to incorporate remote sensing imagery and aerial photographs to the GIS datasets.
Polynomial fit with heights and Collinearity equations fit algorithms are available.
- Reclasifyer and layer Calculator
- Clipping and mosaiking layers
- Densification of rasters by bilinear or bicubic interpolation
- Radiometric correction of remote sensing images.
- Computing vegetation indices
- Generate a confusion matrix for evaluating thematic maps
- and many more...
MiraMon is now also focusing in multispectral/hiperspectral metadata documentation. With MiraMon v4.0 is now
possible to have a single metadata file for several cannel images that collects the information
shared by the whole dataset but also reflecting the singularities of each cannel.
Dr. Xavier Pons (developer of MiraMon) and Alaitz Zabala, members of the MiraMon project
were present.
MiraMon were able to present there two examples in oral presentations, and
papers:
- IMAGE METADATA: COMPILED PROPOSAL AND IMPLEMENTATION
Metadata about remote sensing data have special needs to properly document topics that are not needed in other type of data (such as platform and mission information, multi-band images,…) or that need special consideration when referencing to remote sensing data (such as reference system, spatial extension, bounding quadrangle, pixel size, resolution,...). A metadata model has been developed to consider those aspects.
Alaitz ZABALA and Xavier PONS
- RIGOROUS PROTOCOL FOR POST-CLASSIFICATION LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE DETECTION
This paper presents a protocol for rigorous accuracy assessment of land-cover
and land-use changes between two dates (1977-1993) through the overlay of
two independent classifications (post-classification method). Although postclasification
overlay is a usual method, there are only a few works considering those factors
that can distort results.
Xavier PONS, Pere SERRA and David SAURÍ
