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EarthView® Matrix (Polarimetric SAR Image Manager)

Features
Sensor Ingest Support
  • AIRSAR
  • EV-Matrix distributed with AIRSAR images
  • SIR-C
  • CONVAIR 580
  • ENVISAT
  • ALOS
  • RADARSAT-2
  • Non-standard (user-defined)
Corrections
  • Balancing (band-by-band)
  • Cropping
  • Speckle Filtering (Boxcar, Lee Filters)
Compute
  • Covariance generation (3 or 4 band scattering matrix)
  • H-A-Alpha decomposition
  • Entropy, Alpha, Anisotropy
  • Synthesis
  • User-defined transmit/receive ellipticity (c) and orientation (y)
  • Pre-defined H, V, L, R
  • Band Arithmetic
  • Simple operations (+,-,*,/,**)
  • Logic (and, or, not)
  • Trig functions (sin, cos, etc.)
  • Math functions (abs, conj)
Classification
  • General threshold
  • Edit class names, assign colours
  • Class centre
  • Selectable distance measures
  • User-defined maximum distance
  • User-defined number of iterations
  • User-defined percentage change per iteration
  • Van-Zyl
  • Odd, even, diffuse classes
  • Cloude-Wishart
  • Nine regions of Entropy, Alpha and Anisotropy
  • User-defined number of iterations
Visualization
  • Single band and RGB display
  • Linked views
  • Vector support (context layers)
EV-Matrix Viewer (freeware) Functionality
  • Single band display
  • RGB display
  • Single band polarization synthesis
Computing Platform Requirements
  • Windows XP/2000 Pro
  • Linux (Fedora Core 3 or RedHat Enterprise v4)
  • 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
  • RAID-0 disk subsystem recommended for increased performance
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