bandnorm

The program accomplishes the fairly straightforward task of taking an input cube and outputting normalized values.

Normalization may be done with respect to each band or the entire cube. If the user were to normalize by band, the program would take a pass through the data in order to determine the average of each band. Bandnorm will then pass through each band again and normalize each one based on the average of the given band. If normalizing by the entire cube, the first pass would compute the average of the cube, and the second pass would normalize each band using this average. Bandnorm can use a text file as the input for the average value of each band.

Description

This file will be the input cube that gets normalized.

Type	cube
File Mode	input
Filter	*.cub

Description

Output file that will be created using average values from the input cube to normalize.

Type	cube
File Mode	output

Description

This is the the average to be used during normalization. If the user chooses to use band averages, they intend to take in an entire band of data and normalize based on the average of that band for each pixel in that band. If they choose to use the average from the entire cube, they intend to take in an entire cube of data and normalize each pixel in each band based on the average of the entire cube. If they choose pencil, they intend to use a file containing the averages of each band to normalize each pixel in correlating band. This file is best obtained using Qview's plot tool.

Type	string
Default	BAND
Option List:	Option Brief Description BAND Divide by Band Average Get the average of each band separately to use in the normalization Exclusions SPECTRUM METHOD NUMBER NAME CUBE Divide by Cube Average Get the average of the entire cube to use in the normailization Exclusions SPECTRUM METHOD NUMBER NAME PENCIL Divide by Spectral Pencil Use the given file as the source of the values used to normalize each band separately. Inclusions SPECTRUM METHOD NUMBER NAME

Description

The file with the spectrum data for each band to be normalized with. It assumes this file was aquired using Qview's plot tool. The first line of the spectrum file MUST be composed of titles, and the following lines MUST be the data desired (in most cases the average) of each band in sequential order, starting with the first band. Extra lines are ignored.

Type	filename
File Mode	input
Filter	*.txt *.lis

Description

The method used to determine the correct data column of the spectrum file wished to be used in creating the normalized cube.

Type	string
Default	BYNAME
Option List:	Option Brief Description BYNUMBER Specify the column of the spectrum file to be used by column number Allows one to specify by column number within the given spectrum file, the column data to be used to create the normalized cube. Exclusions NAME Inclusions NUMBER BYNAME Specify the column of the spectrum file to be used by column name The name of the column within the specified spectrum file, used to create the normalized cube. Exclusions NUMBER Inclusions NAME

Description

Allows one to specify by column number within the given spectrum file, the column data to be used to create the normalized cube.

Type	integer
Default	1

Description

Allows one to specify by column name within the given spectrum file, the column data to be used to create the normalized cube.

Type	string
Default	Average