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Last Post 29 Sep 2014 12:48 PM by  anon
ENVI QUAC Details
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29 Sep 2014 12:48 PM
    Greetings, I am currently working on comparisons between QUAC and a new atmospheric compensation algorithm we've developed, and I would like to know a bit more about the ENVI implementation of the QUAC algorithm. In particular: How many endmembers are used in estimating the spectral standard deviation? Are the endmembers filtered (e.g., by NDVI) using the method described in Bernstein et al 2006 [1]? Are all pixels considered when computing the baseline spectrum? If all pixels are used, is any filtering performed within the QUAC function to eliminate outliers, saturated pixels, or sharp spectral features? Thanks in advance for the assistance! [1] L. S. Bernstein, S. M. Adler-Golden, R. L. Sundberg, and A. J. Ratkowski, “Improved Reflectance Retrieval From Hyper- and Multispectral Imagery Without Prior Scene or Sensor Information,” Remote Sensing, vol. 6362, pp. 63622P–63622P–8, Sep. 2006.

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    02 Oct 2014 07:18 AM
    ENVI's implementation follows the reference fairly well. http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/Backgro... At least 10 unique endmembers must exist in the dataset to provide good results. A vegetation filter is applied which uses an NDVI transform. The baseline is calculated on the minimum values in each band. Some outliers are removed that are very low in radiance (water/shadow) or very high (saturated) prior to baseline estimation.
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