This program will display cubes and allow for interactive analysis. Although the program
comprises a number of individual tools to perform analysis on your data, only the Spatial
Plot Tool is discussed here until further notice.
Spatial Plot Tool
This tool is used for analyzing manually selected pixel DN values. It works with two
different modes: linear and rotated rectangle. It is also capable of handling three different
modes of interpolation: Nearest Neighbor, BiLinear and Cubic Convolution.
Linear
This mode involves drawing a
line across an open cube. The selection is started by clicking and holding the mouse where
you would like to start your calculations, at which point you may drag the mouse in any
direction and release the click to establish the end of your selection.
The tool calculates the length of the line in pixels, rounding to the nearest full pixel
value. It then divides the actual length of the line by this rounded length to achieve a
step-size. Please note: This step size may be slightly bigger or smaller
than a pixel length, but this difference becomes negligible for larger selections. For
example, if the length of the drawn line was 2.91 pixels, the tool would round the length to
3 and the step-size would be 2.91/3 (or 0.97).
A plot window will be generated with the calculated DN values of the pixels. The first value
to be calculated is the value where the original mouse click was made. At each increment,
according to step size, the tool calculates the value along the line until it reaches where the
mouse-click was released. This means that for a line with a rounded length of 3, the plot would show a
total of 4 plotted DN values. Please note: For a line with a rounded length of
n, the tool will calculate n + 1 values.
Rotated Rectangle
This mode of the Spatial Plot Tool involves drawing a
rectangle across an open cube. The selection starts by clicking and holding the mouse
where you would like to start your calculations, at which point you may drag the mouse in any
direction and release the click to establish one edge of your selection. You may then
drag the mouse away from this original line to expand in the other direction. A single mouse
click establishes your final selection. Please note: The tool will lock
angles to be perpendicular and so your selections will always be a perfect rectangle.
Similar to the linear mode of this tool, the lengths of the lines in pixels are rounded to the
nearest full pixel value, and then the lengths are divided by their rounded lengths to establish
a step-size. Please note:
The step-size along one edge of the selection may differ from the step-size of the
perpendicular edge, this becomes negligible for larger selections. For
example, if the length of the line in one direction was 2.91 pixels, the step-size would be 2.91/3
(or 0.97), whereas if the length of the line in the perpendicular direction was 4.92, the step
size would be 4.92/5 (0.98).
A plot window will be generated with the calculated DN values. This is done by calculating the
value where the original mouse click was made, then continuing in the direction of that
first-drawn line, calculating the DN value at each step-sized increment until it reaches where
the original mouse-click was released. The tool will then calculate the average of these
values. This average becomes the first value in the plot.
The tool will then shift a step-size along the perpendicular edge, and calculate the average DN
value along a line running parallel to the first-drawn line. This average becomes the second
value in the plot. The tool continues this pattern until it has reached the opposite edge of
the rectangle as the first-drawn line.
Interpolations
Spatial Plot Tool makes use of Nearest Nieghbor, BiLinear and Cubic Convolution interpolations
when calculating the DN values at particular points. Do be aware that when the tool is
calculating a DN value at a particular point, it is calculating the interpolated DN value at
that point.
Jeff Anderson | 2004-12-01 |
Original version
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Jeff Anderson | 2006-01-06 |
Port to Qt4 and add blink tool
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Elizabeth Miller | 2006-07-26 |
Fixed bug with filename expansion and added the MeasureTool
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Brendan George | 2006-09-19 |
Documentation fixes
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Steven Lambright | 2007-09-11 |
Added new rubber band functionality
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Sharmila Prasad | 2009-10-19 |
Added Mosaic Tracking info like image index, serial number and file name
in the Advanced Tracking window to have the ability to track mosaic
origin.
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Jeannie Walldren | 2010-03-08 |
Modified FindTool. If a user enters a line/sample in the Image tab, then
the corresponding lat/lon is displayed in the Ground tab. Added Record
button to FindTool to record clicked or typed point in the
AdvancedTrackTool window.
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Sharmila Prasad | 2010-03-19 |
"qview" now has the ability to handle exceptions. The status bar now
displays a default NoWarning icon with "Ready" message. If an
exception is caught, the icon changes to Warning and displays the error
message. Clicking on the Warning icon will display a dialog window with
the details of the most recent error occured. Closing the dialog or any
other mouse activity will reset the Warning status.
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Eric Hyer | 2010-03-22 |
Discontinued forcing of gui style to windows
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Sharmila Prasad | 2010-03-24 |
Enable FindTool for images without camera and/or projection
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Sharmila Prasad | 2011-02-16 | Added columns Local
Emission and Incidence Angles for Advanced Tracking Tool
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Sharmila Prasad | 2011-03-18 |
Connect the viewport's close signal to the all windows/subwindows like
plottool and histogram tools as well.
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Sharmila Prasad | 2011-05-11 |
Added options for SaveAs to save cube as fullImage, Export AsIs or Export
FullResolution options
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Steven Lambright, Jai Rideout and Tracie Sucharski | 2012-01-18 |
Re-implemented all of the plotting functionality in order to improve the
user interface and capabilities. Added best fit lines and a scatter plot.
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Steven Lambright | 2012-03-22 |
Added the sun shadow and feature nomenclature tools.
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Tracie Sucharski | 2012-04-24 |
Added the stereo tool which calculates spot elevations and elevation profiles
from pairs of stereo images.
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Steven Lambright | 2012-05-29 |
Fixed prompts for saving edited files on closing so they are functional once again.
Fixes #854.
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Steven Lambright and Kimberly Oyama | 2012-06-11 |
Updated the nomenclature tool to include the option to choose from three
types of extent displays (4 arrows, 8 arrows, or a box) and the option
to display all features or only IAU approved features.
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Kimberly Oyama and Steven Lambright | 2012-06-22 |
Updated the Advanced Track Tool to include a help menu and a help dialog that opesn with the
tool and when the user opens it through the help menu. Fixes #772.
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Kimberly Oyama and Steven Lambright | 2012-06-26 |
Fixed query range problems with the nomenclature tool. It can now handle longitudinal ranges
that encompass the 0/360 line. Fixes #958.
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Steven Lambright | 2012-06-28 |
The special pixel colorization tool's settings won't be forgotten when restretching.
Also, images that are opened after using this tool will now take on the appropriate
colors. Fixes #684.
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Steven Lambright | 2012-06-29 |
Improved handling of special pixels in the statistics tool so that they are reported
correctly. Fixes #199.
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Steven Lambright | 2012-07-03 |
Added M/KM options to the spatial plot tool. Fixes #853.
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Tracie Sucharski | 2012-07-30 |
Added the match tool which allows registration (control points) to be edited
between cubes without a camera model.
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Tracie Sucharski | 2012-10-01 |
Fixed bug in the match tool which caused qview to to print error messages and possibly
crash when closing cube viewports either individually or from the File Menu.
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Tracie Sucharski | 2013-01-08 |
Add the AlphaCube to the labels of and exported cropped cube. Fixes #706.
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Tracie Sucharski | 2013-01-08 |
Fixed bug when saving a cube viewport that is displayed at full resolution, the application
would seg fault. Fixes #1386.
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Steven Lambright | 2013-01-24 |
Fixed spatial plot tool functionality on single line images. Fixes #997.
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Steven Lambright | 2013-01-31 |
Improved upon the accuracy of the find tool's sync scale option. Fixes #953.
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Steven Lambright | 2013-02-12 |
The red boxes that indicate the current selection (i.e. the rubber band) shown
while creating plots, updating stretches, and other actions should now only draw
on cubes (viewports) that are relevant to the action being performed. Fixes #1035.
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Steven Lambright | 2013-02-07 |
The plot tables should no longer have multiple rows with the same X value. Also, fixed a crash
related to closing the plot table windows. Fixes #710. Fixes #818.
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Kimberly Oyama and Stuart Sices | 2013-12-30 |
Changed the character that is used as a token when parsing the list of file names used when
the socket is already open. Fixes #1551.
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Ian Humphrey | 2014-07-30 |
Modified spectral plot tool to more accurately compute statistics for rectangular and
polygonal selections. Fixes #2071.
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Ian Humphrey | 2014-07-31 |
Added configurePlotCurves() method to PlotWindow. User can activate configure dialog on
single curve with right-click or activate dialog with combo box of all curves using the
toolbar button. Added What's This for SpatialPlotTool and removed the configure toolbar button
for ScatterPlotWindow. Fixes #2089.
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Ian Humphrey | 2015-10-07 |
Updated icons. Fixes #1041.
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Ian Humphrey | 2015-11-19 |
Added shortcuts to Match Tool window for selecting right measures, registration, undo
registration, saving measures, saving the point, and saving the control network. Fixes #2324.
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Ian Humphrey | 2017-05-10 |
Fixed initial loading of viewport and Fit to viewport zoom to correctly zoom to the center
of the image. Fixes #4756.
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Adam Paquette | 2017-05-19 |
Readded help menu for the 2D and 3D plot tools. Now properly display in both tools.
Fixes #2126.
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Summer Stapleton | 2018-03-14 |
Included documentation for Spatial Plot Tool in this .xml. References #5281.
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Amy Stamile | 2022-08-26 |
Added latitude and longtitude grid display.
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