Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Image Enhancement

This lab required an attempt to remove the striping effect from a Landsat 7 image with a sensor malfunction called the Scan Line Corrector failure. In the original image, black stripes mark diagonally throughout the whole image. My final image output greatly reduced the visibility of the stripes, but slightly distorted and blurred it in some areas. I used ERDAS Imagine to enhance the image, using the Convolution, Focal Analysis, and Fourier Analysis tools. The Convolution tool, using a 3x3 sharpen kernel, lightened the stripes to white. The Focal Analysis tool was ran 6 times over the image to further lighten the stripes to a light grey. The Fourier Analysis tool was the greatest benefactor in reducing the visibility of the stripes, but as mentioned it reduced the image quality slightly.

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