Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-10-14 Thread Nikos Alexandris
[ back again... :-) ] Nikos wrote: Downloaded: - extra: LT50160351988258XXX03 (includes visible clouds - maybe good for testing?) Hamish: in the GloVis preview I only see a few clouds in the NE corner for that date. (Sept 14, 1988) Right. I specifically selected a scene with a few

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-28 Thread Hamish
Nikos wrote: Downloaded: - extra: LT50160351988258XXX03 (includes visible clouds - maybe good for testing?) in the GloVis preview I only see a few clouds in the NE corner for that date. (Sept 14, 1988) Maybe 1991/10/25 is another good scene for a cloud test? (looks like 20% high cumulus

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-25 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: ... Downloaded: - extra: LT50160351988258XXX03 (includes visible clouds - maybe good for testing?) # import landsat bands in wgs84, utm, zone 17 # r.proj to nc_spm_08/landsat # set region g.region rast=lsat5_1988.1 -p projection: 99 (Lambert Conformal Conic) zone: 0 datum:

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-18 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Friday 17 of September 2010 22:27:40 Hamish wrote: Nikos wrote: Given that the NC lsat data set represents untouched DN's, does it? We'll nail that one... ;-) perhaps it has to do with old vs new calibration parameters? at least for the lsat7_2000 NC maps, the cloud detection is

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-18 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Hamish: I think we'll have to redownload the three NC scenes from GloVis to know for sure. Nikos: Downloaded: - LT50160351987287XXX08 The metadata given in Glovis [1] (there is an option show metadata) do not agree with the ones provided in the file L5016035_03519871014_MTL.txt [2]

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-18 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: Note that the LC lsat5 rasters are of 28.5m while the currently available at usgs is of 30m pix-res. I just kept the 28.5 (when reprojecting the usgs-lsat5 to the nc_spm_08 location) Again: Note that the _NC_ lsat5 rasters are of 28.5m while the currently available at usgs are of

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-17 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Hamish: Probably we should concentrate on the North Carolina dataset for common tests... its landsat mapset has: ... Auto-cloud determination for the NC 1987 Landsat5 scene is no good. Right, it does not look good. # rename lsat5_1987_10 to lsat5_1987.1 (same for the rest of the bands of

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-17 Thread Hamish
Nikos wrote: Given that the NC lsat data set represents untouched DN's, does it? perhaps it has to do with old vs new calibration parameters? at least for the lsat7_2000 NC maps, the cloud detection is also very bad, and there I confirmed the calibration numbers with the values listed in the

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Hamish: should we be calculating the sat_zenith= param from SUN_AZIMUTH in the metadata file, or is that something else? I just used the default 8.2 deg. Nikos: Good question! As described above, for the sake of testing I just fed the sat_zenith parameter the sun_azimuth value

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Hamish: [...] band 6 temperatures do not look very plausible (30 degC ocean and -6 degC land) on a sunny autumn day. here http://landsathandbook.gsfc.nasa.gov/handbook/handbook_htmls/chapter11/chapter11.html something relevant I guess (11.3.3 Band 6 Conversion to Temperature) Nikos

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos wrote: ... I realised that I don't really have the correct metadata file for the scene I was given. The meta file available at Glovis is not really the complete set of meta-information (is my guess -- missing sat_zenith= value for example). Hamish wrote: fwiw with Landsat-7

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: # so, here it goes... seems to run fine i.landsat.toar band_prefix=landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas method=uncorrected sensor=5 date=2007-09-05 solar_elevation=52.4986238 product_date=2007-09-05 ... r.info landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas.toar.6 -r min=203.36601783578

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: # so, here it goes... seems to run fine i.landsat.toar band_prefix=landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas method=uncorrected sensor=5 date=2007-09-05 solar_elevation=52.4986238 product_date=2007-09-05 ... r.info landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas.toar.6 -r min=203.36601783578

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: # so, here it goes... seems to run fine i.landsat.toar band_prefix=landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas method=uncorrected sensor=5 date=2007-09-05 solar_elevation=52.4986238 product_date=2007-09-05 ... r.info landsat_postfire_east_sterea_ellas.toar.6 -r

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-15 Thread Hamish
Nikos wrote: # with -f not sure about the real differences with the previous command. Look fine though :-) the paper states that the filtering will convert pixels which have 5 of 8 surrounding cells as clouds into a cloud pixel as well, thus removing small holes. I have not checked if the

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-14 Thread Hamish
Hi, I've just made some small changes to i.landsat.acca and i.landsat.toar in svn which shouldn't change the behaviour of the module at all, just do some more error checks and make better use of libgis (writes out more metadata etc. e.g. added units=Kelvin to band 6 metadata, not sure about W/m^2

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-14 Thread Hamish
Hamish: Probably we should concentrate on the North Carolina dataset for common tests... its landsat mapset has: ... lsat7_2000_10 lsat7_2000_20 lsat7_2000_30 lsat7_2000_40 lsat7_2000_50 lsat7_2000_61 lsat7_2000_70 lsat7_2000_80 metadata from hist/ file:

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-14 Thread Hamish
Hamish wrote: should we be calculating the sat_zenith= param from SUN_AZIMUTH in the metadata file, or is that something else? I just used the default 8.2 deg. Nikos: Good question! As described above, for the sake of testing I just fed the sat_zenith parameter the sun_azimuth value and

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-14 Thread Hamish
Nikos wrote: ... I realised that I don't really have the correct metadata file for the scene I was given. The meta file available at Glovis is not really the complete set of meta-information (is my guess -- missing sat_zenith= value for example). fwiw with Landsat-7 downloads from GloVis I

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread Daniel Victoria
Hi Nikos, I did not use i.landsat.toar. I converted the DN values to radiance manually, using r.mapcalc and the formula and coefficients provided. Are you going to use i.atcorr? I'm still trying to figure out which is the correct procedure for i.atcorr: 1) Convert DN to radiance and run

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread stephen sefick
Those are digital numbers. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Daniel Victoria daniel.victo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nikos, I did not use i.landsat.toar. I converted the DN values to radiance manually, using r.mapcalc and the formula and  coefficients provided. Are you going to use i.atcorr? I'm

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread Hamish
Nikos: Did you finally used i.landsat.toar for the Landsat5 - TM bands? I haven't tried with landsat 5 data from glovis yet, have some scenes on order, expect them to arrive in the next few days. It seems to be working for me with landsat7 data. Band 61 temperatures seem plausible anyway

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Daniel Victoria wrote: I did not use i.landsat.toar. I converted the DN values to radiance manually, using r.mapcalc and the formula and coefficients provided. ok Are you going to use i.atcorr? Currently I only require to automatically detect clouds and nothing more than that. Since I

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Monday 13 of September 2010 04:20:33 stephen sefick wrote: I have to go out in the field tomorrow, but I have put together a script, semi-automatically, to do this and calculate NDVI. I can pass it along for what it is worth. Sure, and if it's generally helpful we might put that in the

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-13 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Nikos: Did you finally used i.landsat.toar for the Landsat5 - TM bands? Hamish: I haven't tried with landsat 5 data from glovis yet, have some scenes on order, expect them to arrive in the next few days. It seems to be working for me with landsat7 data. Band 61 temperatures seem plausible

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-12 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Daniel Victoria: I haven't tryed i.landsat.toar addon but from what I read in the wiki (http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Atmospheric_correction) I could either use i.landsat.toar or a DN - Radiance conversion formula that is given... Will try to recalculate the images, I might have done

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-09-12 Thread stephen sefick
I have to go out in the field tomorrow, but I have put together a script, semi-automatically, to do this and calculate NDVI. I can pass it along for what it is worth. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote: Daniel Victoria: I haven't

[GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-08-02 Thread Daniel Victoria
Hi all, I'm trying to estimate albedo from landsat5 images but I'm getting very strange result. Water bodies, for instance, are giving me an albedo of 0.15 to 0.17, unusualy high. Here is the procedure I'm doing 1) Convert TM images from grey level to radiance using the Lmax / Lmin formula

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-08-02 Thread José Miguel Barrios
Hey Daniel I think the input map to be given in i.atcorr should not be the DN. Conversion to radiance or reflectance should be done before implementing the 6s algorithm. Have you tried i.landsat.toar to obtain radiance values? Success! JM 2010/8/2 Daniel Victoria daniel.victo...@gmail.com

Re: [GRASS-user] Estimating Albedo from Landsat

2010-08-02 Thread Daniel Victoria
Hi Jose, I haven't tryed i.landsat.toar addon but from what I read in the wiki (http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Atmospheric_correction) I could either use i.landsat.toar or a DN - Radiance conversion formula that is given... Will try to recalculate the images, I might have done something wrong