Image Processing Software

• ERDAS Imagine (Hexagon Geospatial) $

• ENVI + IDL (Harris Geospatial) $
• ArcGIS (ESRI) $
• QGIS (open source) free
• Programming (R, Python, IDL, C, etc) variable
• Google Earth Engine (Google, demo in a couple
weeks!) free
• ESA SNAP (today!) free
The Sentinel Application Platform
(SNAP)
• SNAP is the European Space Agency’s free way of
looking at remotely sensed data.
• Designed for Sentinel-1 (RADAR), Sentinel-2
(multispectral, similar to Landsat), and Sentinel-3
(multispectral, similar to MODIS, plus thermal, and
radar, and a radiometer)
• Today we are going to take a short tour of SNAP
and how to access ESA data.
STEP = Science Toolbox
Exploitation Platform
http://step.esa.int/main/
Copernicus Open Access Hub
(getting data demo)
https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
Sentinel-2 Bands & Resolutions
• B1 = 443 nm = 60 m • B9 = 945 nm = 60 m
• B2 = 490 nm = 10 m • B10 = 1375 nm = 60 m
• B3 = 560 nm = 10 m • B11 = 1610 nm = 20 m
• B4 = 665 nm = 10 m • B12 = 2190 nm = 20 m
• B5 = 705 nm = 20 m
• B6 = 740 nm = 20 m
• B7 = 783 nm = 20 m
• B8 = 842 nm = 10 m
• B8a = 865 nm = 20 m
SNAP in action (demo)