Bundle to perfect sensor¶

Detailed description¶

This application performs P+XS pansharpening. The default mode use Pan and XS sensor models to estimate the transformation to superimpose XS over Pan before the fusion (“default mode”). The application provides also a PHR mode for Pleiades images which does not use sensor models as Pan and XS products are already coregistered but only estimate an affine transformation to superimpose XS over the Pan.Note that this option is automatically activated in case Pleiades images are detected as input.

Parameters¶

This section describes in details the parameters available for this application. Table [1] presents a summary of these parameters and the parameters keys to be used in command-line and programming languages. Application key is BundleToPerfectSensor .

Input PAN Image

Input panchromatic image.

Input XS Image

Input XS image.

Output image

Output image.

Elevation management This group of parameters allows managing elevation values. Supported formats are SRTM, DTED or any geotiff. DownloadSRTMTiles application could be a useful tool to list/download tiles related to a product.

• DEM directory: This parameter allows selecting a directory containing Digital Elevation Model files. Note that this directory should contain only DEM files. Unexpected behaviour might occurs if other images are found in this directory.
• Geoid File: Use a geoid grid to get the height above the ellipsoid in case there is no DEM available, no coverage for some points or pixels with no_data in the DEM tiles. A version of the geoid can be found on the OTB website (http://hg.orfeo-toolbox.org/OTB-Data/raw-file/404aa6e4b3e0/Input/DEM/egm96.grd).
• Default elevation: This parameter allows setting the default height above ellipsoid when there is no DEM available, no coverage for some points or pixels with no_data in the DEM tiles, and no geoid file has been set. This is also used by some application as an average elevation value.

Mode Superimposition mode. Available choices are:

• Default mode : Default superimposition mode : uses any projection reference or sensor model found in the images
• Pleiades mode : Pleiades superimposition mode, designed for the case of a P+XS bundle in SENSOR geometry. It uses a simple transform on the XS image : a scaling and a residual translation.

Spacing of the deformation field

Spacing of the deformation field. Default is 10 times the PAN image spacing.

Available RAM (Mb) Available memory for processing (in MB).

Load otb application from xml file Load otb application from xml file.

Save otb application to xml file Save otb application to xml file.

Example¶

To run this example in command-line, use the following:

otbcli_BundleToPerfectSensor -inp QB_Toulouse_Ortho_PAN.tif -inxs QB_Toulouse_Ortho_XS.tif -out BundleToPerfectSensor.png uchar

To run this example from Python, use the following code snippet:

#!/usr/bin/python

# Import the otb applications package
import otbApplication

# The following line creates an instance of the BundleToPerfectSensor application
BundleToPerfectSensor = otbApplication.Registry.CreateApplication("BundleToPerfectSensor")

# The following lines set all the application parameters:
BundleToPerfectSensor.SetParameterString("inp", "QB_Toulouse_Ortho_PAN.tif")

BundleToPerfectSensor.SetParameterString("inxs", "QB_Toulouse_Ortho_XS.tif")

BundleToPerfectSensor.SetParameterString("out", "BundleToPerfectSensor.png")
BundleToPerfectSensor.SetParameterOutputImagePixelType("out", 1)

# The following line execute the application
BundleToPerfectSensor.ExecuteAndWriteOutput()