Remote sensing software

A remote sensing software is a <a href="/facts/Software_application/YQuj7Kog">software application</a> that processes <a href="/facts/Remote_sensing/pj2crmGs">remote sensing</a> data. Remote sensing applications are similar to <a href="/facts/Graphics_software/81h9n4M2">graphics software</a>, but they enable generating <a href="/facts/Geographic/TRd1Toyo">geographic</a> information from satellite and airborne <a href="/facts/Sensor/RN8SXbjs">sensor</a> data. Remote sensing applications read specialized file formats that contain sensor image data, georeferencing information, and sensor <a href="/facts/Metadata/qt35z79C">metadata</a>. Some of the more popular remote sensing file formats include: <a href="/facts/GeoTIFF/l1TxVEM7">GeoTIFF</a>, <a href="/facts/National_Imagery_Transmission_Format/NqnrX3sL">NITF</a>, <a href="/facts/JPEG_2000/GAzXdHI2">JPEG 2000</a>, <a href="/facts/ECW_(file_format)/JjMVlSmn">ECW (file format)</a>, <a href="/facts/MrSID/fJI3bBjh">MrSID</a>, <a href="/facts/Hierarchical_Data_Format/IaIFvRP1">HDF</a>, and <a href="/facts/NetCDF/DUwTEW7n">NetCDF</a>.
Remote sensing applications perform many features including:

<ul><li>Change Detection — Determining the changes from images taken at different times of the same area</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Orthorectification/hVucWyEE">Orthorectification</a> — Warping an image to its location on the earth</li>
<li>Spectral Analysis — For example, using non-visible parts of the <a href="/facts/Electromagnetic_spectrum/24LARvFY">electromagnetic spectrum</a> to determine whether a forest is healthy</li>
<li>Image Classification — Categorizing pixels based upon reflectance into different land cover classes (e.g. Supervised classification, Unsupervised classification and Object Oriented classification)</li></ul>
Many remote sensing applications are built using common remote sensing toolkits.

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Remote sensing software