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Understanding output from Tasseled Cap Transformation
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06 Oct 2010 03:58 AM
    Dear Colleagues, I am currently doing some work for an ecologist in our organisation. She is interested in investigating the relationship between ground water depth and vegetation health / moisture content. I am using Landsat 5 TM imagery from 1991 through to 2003. After orthorectification, radiance conversion (using gains - bias), and atmospheric correction (using FLAASH), I have now run a TC transformation. In particular I was thinking of using the 2nd and 3rd TC channels to correlate with depth to ground water. Unfortunately I see that most of TC 3 is made up of negative numbers. Is this normal? If so can convert these to positive numbers by simply adding the min value (e.g. -64) to the imagery? I am not sure how the ecologist will react to negative moisture status values. Many thanks, Wesley

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    06 Oct 2010 07:46 AM
    A couple of things may be going on. First, I believe the TC transform for Landsat-5 data in ENVI is for uncalibrated data in the original DNs. So input of reflectance data may yield incorrect values. The TC transform for Landsat-7 data should be in calibrated reflectance. Second, FLAASH outputs reflectance data scaled by 10000. I am not sure the TC transform is equiped to deal with scaled reflectance so you may have to convert the data to floating point reflectance between 0-1.0 (masking data that are outliers). You could do a division of the data by 10000 using Band Math. This issue was discussed in another post as well, which might be useful: http://www.ittvis.com/Use...e/posts/Default.aspx

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    12 Oct 2010 03:34 AM
    Many thanks for the reply and the link to the previous post. Comments will be taken into account. Regards, Wesley
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