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This document provides steps to automatically mosaic multiple SPOT satellite images using Geomatica OrthoEngine software. The key steps are: 1) Define the mosaic area and output projection; 2) Load the images to be mosaicked; 3) Run automatic mosaicking using adaptive filtering for normalization and histogram matching for color balancing; 4) Generate a low-resolution preview mosaic to verify settings; 5) Generate the full-resolution final mosaic.

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Geomatica Orthoengine Automated Mosaicking: Page - 1

This document provides steps to automatically mosaic multiple SPOT satellite images using Geomatica OrthoEngine software. The key steps are: 1) Define the mosaic area and output projection; 2) Load the images to be mosaicked; 3) Run automatic mosaicking using adaptive filtering for normalization and histogram matching for color balancing; 4) Generate a low-resolution preview mosaic to verify settings; 5) Generate the full-resolution final mosaic.

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Geomatica OrthoEngine

Automated Mosaicking
The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight Geomaticas advanced automated mosaicking
capability using SPOT4/5 scenes collected on multiple dates and orbital passes. The primary
mosaicking operations that will be exposed in this tutorial are image normalization, image color
balancing and cutline generation.
1. Open the Geomatica 2013 OrthoEngine application

2. In the OrthoEngine menu bar, click File New


3. Give your project a Filename, Name and Description
4. As the Math Modelling Method select None (mosaic only)

5. Click OK
6. In the Project Processing step click on the Set Mosaic File Projection button. Input the
appropriate Output projection and pixel spacing information

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7. Click OK
8. In OrthoEngine, change the Processing step to Image Input
9. Click on Open new or existing image button

10. In the Open Image panel, click New Image


11. In File Selector navigate to the images you want to input
12. Click OK to the pop up message

13. Click Close


The images are now loaded into the OrthoEngine Project and are ready for mosaic
processing
14. In OrthoEngine select the Display Project Overview button

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15. The following panel opens:

16. Close this panel


17. In OrthoEngine, change the Processing step to Mosaic
18. Click the Define Mosaic Area button

19. In the Define Mosaic Area panel, click Browse


20. In the File Selector, select the output file name and location for the mosaic file
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21. Leave everything else as default in Define Mosaic Area Dialog box

Footprints
The Define Mosaic panel allows the user to define the mosaic file that will be used to hold
the mosaicked imagery. In this panel, the user can:
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Set which images to include in the mosaic, by selecting/unselecting the footprints


Set the mosaic bounds by dragging the red rectangular boundary extent
Specify, which channels to include and the bit-depth of the channels

22. Click OK
23. In OrthoEngine, click the Automatic mosaicking button

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24. In the Automatic Mosaicking panel, change the Normalization method to Adaptive
Filter by selecting it in the dropdown list and click Apply All

For optical imagery, the Adaptive Filter and Hotspot are the only 2 normalization methods
that are relevant.
25. Under Color Balance, ensure Histogram (Entire Image) method is selected
26. Check Ignore pixels under bit mask

27. Under File Options, click Browse next to External Bitmap


28. Navigate and select a water mask. If you do not have one, skip this step.
Water Mask
The Water Mask is used to exclude pixels from statistics for calculating the
color balancing of the image. The pixels under the mask will still have color
balancing applied.
Water and clouds are the most common features that are excluded, because
they will have detrimental effects on the color balancing of ground pixels.
Note: Large water bodies do not usually color balance well, which is a general
industry issue

29. The panel should look like below:

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30. Click Generate Preview


Mosaic Preview and Generation
Generate Preview creates a low-resolution version of the mosaic. The
preview file is saved under the path and file name specified in Preview
File box. You can use the preview of the mosaic to verify the color
balance and cutline selection before continuing with the full resolution
version. Click on Generate Mosaic and this will process all files and
create the full-resolution version of the mosaic. The output mosaic is
saved under the path and file name defined in the Define Mosaic
window.

31. The Progress Monitor opens

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32. The following preview will appear:

About the Preview


The preview mosaic is a very valuable output, because it is a low
resolution preview of the final mosaic, which provides the user
with a strong idea of how the automatic settings for the color
balancing and cutlines will turn out. Preview takes a fraction of
the time to generate, as compared to the final full resolution
mosaic, so different settings can be used in different runs to
compare, which parameter set will provide the best results.

33. Close out of the Preview Window and the Automatic Mosaicking panel
34. Click Generate Mosaic in the Automatic Mosaic window to generate the final mosaic

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