User:Amicitia77/PARGE

The PARGE software is an orthorectification and direct geocoding software for airborne optical scanner data. It performs an orthorectification of line scanner imagery using a digital elevation model on the basis of high precision flight parameters such as GPS position and attitude angles from an inertial navigation system. Using accurate digital elevation models and optional ground control points, sub-pixel geometric accuracy is achieved. The program is suited for the correction of all kinds of airborne scanner imagery and is optimized for airborne hyperspectral instruments. Directly supported sensors so far are: AISA (Eagle/Hawk/Fenix), AVIRIS, APEX, Itres (CASI/SASI/TASI), Deadalus ATM, HyMap, Probe-1, MIVIS, PHILLS/Samson, NEO's HYSPEX, Resonon-Pika, and Headwall Photonics Hyperspec® and Hyperspec Nano.

Key Capabilities

 * direct parametric geocoding & orthorectification,
 * a semi-automatic, ground control points-based boresight calibration procedure
 * optimisation for imaging spectroscopy (hyperspectral imaging)
 * a workbench-style graphical user interface
 * open internal data format and programming interface
 * wide variety of resampling options
 * support for raw-geometry based processing chains
 * automatic mosaicking
 * direct link to atmospheric correction package (ATCOR-4)
 * customer-oriented software customization

PARGE has originally been developed between 1995 and 1998 by D. Schläpfer at the Remote Sensing Laboratories of the University of Zurich and is now further improved and maintained by ReSe Applications LLC (Wil, Switzerland).

Field of application
The imaging spectroscopy, or chemical sensing alternatively, serves in the fields of environmental research, geological exploration (mineral spectroscopy), agricultural and forestry industries, airborne reconnaissance, as well as for mapping applications.

Weblinks

 * Website Rese Applications LLC
 * Google scholar articles about PARGE