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Orthorectifying Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

In my previous posts, I explained how to pan-sharpen and then mosaic Worldview-3 satellite imagery. The final phase of processing the 'ortho-ready' imagery is 'orthorectification'. To orthorectify the Worldview-3 imagery I used a 2m resolution digital surface model (DSM) generated by Digitalglobe from a stereo-pair of Worldview-2 satellite images of the same area of Middle …

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Pan-sharpening a Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

How to pan-sharpen Worldview-3 satellite imagery of the Asyut region.

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Mosaicking pan-sharpened Worldview-3 satellite imagery of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

How to mosaic pan-sharpened Worldview-3 imagery in AcrGIS.

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Pan-sharpening a composite 3-band 4-3-2 RGB true colour Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

How to enhance a composite 3-band satellite image with a panchromatic band, by pan-sharpening in ArcGIS.

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‘I see your true colours . . ‘ creating a composite ‘true colour’ Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi

How to create a natural 'true colour' image from single Landsat-8 satellite image bands.

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Five years on: Reflections on mobile GIS survey at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017

Results of the mobile GIS survey in 2017 at the Hatnub quarries and links to the published papers.

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Free high-resolution satellite imagery and how to find it.

Where can you find free high resolution satellite imagery for your project, which is the best imagery and what are the issues with it?

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Finishing the map, georeferencing the pyramid of Djedefre

Georeferencing a map of the pyramid complex of Djedefre, wrestling with inaccuracies, residuals and RMSE.

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Errors, inaccuracies, resolution and RMSE: Georeferencing a difficult map of Abu Rawash’s pyramid and cemeteries

What makes georeferencing historic maps difficult and how does the process work? Here I georeference a problematic map of Abu Rawash, pyramid and cemeteries, Egypt.

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Wonky Giza pyramids: Oblique satellite imagery and georeferencing

Satellite imagery is very precise but can still exhibit parallax. This is a particular issue for georeferencing historic maps, demonstrated here with reference to the Giza Pyramids.