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Mosaic color balancing question
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20 Nov 2006 05:04 AM
    Say I have four images running west to east, each one overlaps with the ones directly to the east and west: A B C D I want to have them all color balanced using the overlapping zones. I select C as the fixed image, and A, B and D as "Adjust". My question is this: how, exactly, does "A" get color balanced, given that it doesn't actually overlap with C. Does the algorithm first color balance B and D, and then use the overlap between A and the now color balanced B to color balance A? On a related note, what *is* the algorithm used to do the color balancing? Does ENVI calculate regression coefficients using the pixels in the overlap zones, or does it do some sort of adjustment to fit the distribution of values, or what?

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    20 Nov 2006 05:04 AM
    Hi Jonathan, The short answer to your question is as follows: Color Balancing calculates the mean and standard deviation for each scene in the overlapping areas (or the entire image, if you are going that route), passes these values to another routine that uses them to create a system of equations, then solves the equations via singular value decomposition (SVDC) to retrieve the correct gain and offset values to apply to the scenes that should be modified, then applies them. As far as I can see, linear regression isn't involved.
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