Satellite images obtained by the Landsat-7 spacecraft are characterized by a wide capture band (185 km), the presence of multispectral images (8 spectral channels) and a relatively high resolution panchromatic channel (15 m). Today, the global archive of Landsat-7 images contains coverage of almost the entire surface of the Earth, with some regions captured multiple times.
Landsat images have a larger number of color ranges, which allows their spectral analysis to solve many problems. Thus, the ETM+ survey equipment installed on Landsat-7 has eight spectral ranges, which are characterized by:
- blue-green band- depth measurement (sea), differentiation of soil from vegetation, as well as deciduous forests from coniferous-resolution of 30 m;
- green stripe-accentuates the highest point of vegetation-30 m resolution;
- red stripe-distinguishes vegetation slopes-30 m resolution;
- reflecting IR radiation-accentuates the biomass content and shorelines with a resolution of 30m;
- reflecting IR radiation-highlights the assessment of the moisture content in the soil, vegetation, penetrates through a slight cloud cover-a resolution of 30 m.;
- thermal-IR band-used for shooting in the IR range and for assessing humidity-resolution of 60 m;
- IR-reflecting band-mapping of altered hydrothermal rock formations associated with mineral deposits-resolution of 30 meters;
- thermal-IR band-used for shooting in the IR range and for assessing humidity-resolution of 60 m;
- black and white stripe-increases the sharpness of color images-resolution of 15 meters.
On May 31, 2003, a malfunction occurred on Board the Landsat-7 satellite. It was caused by a failure of the Scan line Corrector (SLC). The malfunction was irreversible, but nevertheless, Landsat 7 ETM + continued to shoot in "SLC-off" mode. To solve this problem and provide consumers with new shooting materials, a new product "SLC-off" was developed. This product is created by replacing all missing image pixels from previously obtained Landsat-7 satellite images with approximate values derived from jointly registered, histogram - compatible SLC-on frames.
MKGT is ready to pick up Landsat-7, 8 satellite images for the territory you need. The technology developed by the company's specialists and widely used in practice, allow you to update digital topographic maps at scales of 1:200000 and smaller based on Landsat-8 images.