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Thursday, 20 March 2014

What Is Open Source Remote Sensing ?

Open Source Remote Sensing in India
Open Source Remote Sensing

Remote sensing is defined as a technology which provides information about the environment or the phenomenon on the earth's surface which is far away or remotely sensed. A person can get information about the things without any direct as well as physical contact with an object.

Open source remote sensing is a software with a source code which is available for all as a source to learn, to explore and to make use of it. Open sources are the licensed softwares made by many people which are freely available and can be easily used and further modified by anyone for the credits.

SOME SOURCES OF REMOTE SENSING:

IDRISI
Erdas
ENVI
ILWIS
QGIS
Orfeo Toolbox
R
GRASS
SAGA GIS

The above given sources of remote sensing some are free whereas few are not.

ILWI,QGIS for GIS, Orfeo toolbar, R,GRASS,SAGA are some of the free or open sources for remote sensing whereas IDRISI,Erdas,ENVI are not free.

Ques. How open source software is useful?
Ans.  It is enourmously useful to the people who even have a little          knowledge about this. It is available free of cost with license that means it avoids expense. It can be used by anyone and can also be further modified for the credits.

Ques. What are the objectives of open source?
Ans.  There are many objectives like:
  1. People who are new to this field can gain knowledge about this and is also theoretically   beneficial to them. 
  2. Through this open source lectures can be delivered to the students in the lab.
  3. The changes can be made in the software and can be generated further.
  4. It can be very helpful for the research scholars to carry out their research in a good and technical manner. 

Ques. What are the best open source for remote sensing?
Ans.  The best open source for remote sensing are QGIS 2.0.1 "Dufour",GDAL 1.9.2, GRASS GIS 6.4.3,Orfeo Toolbox 3.18, R 3.0.2 and SAGA 2.1.

Ques. What are the microsoft windows in which open source can run? 
Ans.  Linux, windows, windows Vista, windows Azure, etc are some of the microsoft windows that support open sources and the applications like JAVA and C++ makes the software easily run.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Thermal Remote Sensing


Thermal Remote Sensing is described as the acquisition of image data in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It uses the radiations that are emitted by the surface itself. Thermal infrared is emitted energy that is sensed digitally. Thermal remote sensing is used on areas to assess the heat island, to perform land cover classifications and as an input for models of urban surface atmosphere exchange. Thermal Remote Sensing is a special case of reserving land surface temperature which varies in accordance to the surface energy balance.


Thermal data are usually acquired in sequences, where the first image is taken at night and the second is taken during the day. The image that is taken at night is used to monitor the raw emission of the surface and the second image that is taken during the day is used to see what part of incident shortware solar radiation is transformed to thermal radiation and then emitted to the surface.

This principle is used quite often in geological applications and we can study the presence of different rocks based on their thermal capacity. Whereas the domain of visible and near infrared (VNIR) radiation is suitable for monitoring the presence of metallic minerals such as hematite, the shortwave infrared domain (SWIR) is used for the detection of minerals containing OH- functional group. But none of these domains is suitable for observing the major constituents of igneous rocks, silica and feldspar.

In addition to the geological applications, Thermal Remote Sensing image data can be used for :

  • Studying the transformation of shortware solar radiation into longware thermal radiation and and evapo transpiration in the case of vegetation.
  • Detection of heat loss in buildings
  • Detection of the damages of steam pipelines and caliduct
  • Detection of the subsurface fires

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