In addition to the Z3RGB camera, required to record the ultra-realistic OptoClones, special
panchromatic photo-sensitive high-resolution glass plates of ultra fine grain silver halide emulsions are also required, similar to those used in the early days of conventional photography.
Fusing
panchromatic and multispectral images with corresponding characteristics can improve the visualization of the study area and produce better results [20].
Kieffer, "The use of Intensity-Hue-Saturation transformation for merging SPOT
panchromatic and multispectral image data," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol.
The Multispectral Camera (MSC), the on-board camera of KOMPSAT-2, provides a 1 m
panchromatic image and a 4 m multispectral image with four bands in the nadir viewing condition.
Panchromatic images observe radiation reflected from Earth's surface over a visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelength range of 0.4 to 0.9 [micro]m, whereas TIR images observe radiation emitted from Earth's surface over a TIR wavelength range of 8 to 15 [micro]m [7].
For the
panchromatic image, the correlations varied from -0.64 (soil 3) to -0.92 (soils 1 and 6, respectively).
For this reason, satellite image datasets (SPOT
panchromatic and Landsat TM) acquired in a time span between 1989 and 2007 were used for image classification and change detection.
WorldView-3 satellite launched by DigitalGlobe in 2014 captures 30-centimetre
panchromatic imagery along with 24 bands of data.
Normally, multi-spectral (MS) images provide less spatial resolution than a
panchromatic (PAN) image.
SUPARCO generally uses 5 meter multispectral resolution data produced through spatial enhancement of 10 meter multispectral images from 5 meter
panchromatic image.
Recently, some other new
panchromatic ultra-fine-grain silver halide materials are available from various manufacturers such as Sphera-s in Russia, Colour Holographics in UK, and Ultimate in France.