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Capabilities
TerraLook Software Capabilities
TerraLook Software is an Open Source Viewer/Toolkit and can be downloaded from
http://terralook.sourceforge.net/. The TerraLook Software was
formerly know as the Protected Area Archive.
This tool includes the following capabilities:
Images From These Sensors
- ASTER: 2000 to present
- Landsat: c. 2000
- Landsat: c. 1990
- Landsat: c. 1975
Image Finder
Displays footprints of images and outlines of protected areas so users
can easily find and display images of interest
Roam and Zoom
To find and see features of interest within an image
Measure Distance and Area
Observing Change
Image "flicker" and side-by-side viewing |
Overlay Manager
To create, edit, and control overlays, such as country and PA boundaries,
add user-supplied overlays, read in shapefiles from a file, enter points
into a tableImage Annotation
Adding text, lines, polygons, etc., so an image can be used to tell a story
and effectively communicate an issue
Image Mosaicking
Combines multiple images into a single larger image.
Image Enhancement
Adjusts images to bring out desired features.
Multilingual
English and Spanish versions
Advanced Features
Band math, classify image, classify layer, attribute editing, 3-D
viewing, more |
This new viewer is "Open Source", based on a project called
OpenEV, though note that we are
using an alternate build in
FWTools. It is actively under
development and a new version is planned for the next year or so that includes
the following enhancements:
- New Look and Feel (due to new GUI software)
- Simplified user interface
- Improved annotation tools
- Improved 3-D viewing
- Updateable Collections
- Special capabilities for advanced users
- Web-accessible datasets
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