spottopgm(1L)spottopgm(1L)NAMEspottopgm - convert SPOT satellite images to Portable Greymap format
SYNTAXspottopgm [-1|2|3] [Firstcol Firstline Lastcol Lastline] inputfile
OPTIONS
-1|2|3 Extract the given colour from the SPOT image. The colours are
infra-red, visible light and ultra-violet, although I don't
know which corresponds to which number. If the image is in
colour, this will be announced on standard error. The default
colour is 1.
Firstcol Firstline Lastcol Lastline
Extract the specified rectangle from the SPOT image. Most SPOT
images are 3000 lines long and 3000 or more columns wide.
Unfortunately the SPOT format only gives the width and not the
length. The width is printed on standard error. The default
rectangle is the width of the input image by 3000 lines.
DESCRIPTION
Spottopgm converts the named inputfile into Portable Greymap format,
defaulting to the first color and the whole SPOT image unless specified
by the options.
INSTALLATION
You must edit the source program and either define BIG_ENDIAN or LIT‐
TLE_ENDIAN, and fix the typedefs for uint32_t, uint16_t and uint8_t
appropriately.
BUGS
Currently spottopgm doesn't determine the length of the input file;
this would involve two passes over the input file. It defaults to 3000
lines instead.
Spottopgm could extract a three-color image (ppm), but I didn't feel
like making the program more complicated than it is now. Besides, there
is no one-to-one correspondence between red, green, blue and infra-red,
visible and ultra-violet.
I've only had a limited number of SPOT images to play with, and there‐
fore wouldn't guarantee that this will work on any other images.
AUTHOR
Warren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au
SEE ALSO
The rest of the Pbmplus suite.
spottopgm(1L)
