MicroMSI for Windows is a remote sensing

Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals Remote sensing...

 imagery analysis

Imagery analysis

Imagery analysis is the extraction of useful information from bi-dimensional graphic formats, including screen shots. This includes color and black-and-white photographs, infra-red photographs and video, radar screens and synthetic aperture radar formats, ultrasound, EKG, EEG, MRI, echo...

 program designed for use in introductory courses in remote sensing, developed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...

. MicroMSI for Windows is a public domain

Public domain

Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...

 program and can be freely redistributed for non-commercial purposes.

Information

These pages have been made available to enhance the support services for the MicroMSI user community. A number of resources are provided here to help you resolve problems, report bugs, and suggest improvements to MicroMSI products and services.

MicroMSI for Windows updates the original DOS-based version with a full 32-bit Windows implementation.

Documentation is supplied in the extensive help file which serves as a reference to MicroMSI features and commands, but also provides a multi-spectral image processing tutorial as student exercises.

Features

• multiple display windows (up to 10) simultaneously
• band-ratioed, band-differenced, thermal, multiband (including derived panchromatic
  Panchromatic
  Panchromatic film is a type of black-and-white photographic film that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light. A panchromatic film therefore produces a realistic reproduction of a scene as it appears to the human eye. Almost all modern photographic film is panchromatic, but some types are...
  
  ), NDVI, unsupervised classification, spectral classification and stereo anaglyph displays added to the gray-level, multiband
  Multiband
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  (pseudo-color only) and supervised classification displays of MicroMSI for DOS
• principal component analysis
• context-sensitive help
• help exercises covering all of the major functions of the program
• full support of any Windows output device (e.g., color printers) at any size up to E-size
• an image importing/indexing "wizard" that simplifies the process of accessing your data
• MicroMSI images can be cut to the clipboard and pasted into other Window applications
• MicroMSI images can be saved as bitmaps
• grid, north arrow and symbols added as overlay options to captions (which now can be any Windows font, size and rotation)
• support for BIL (band interleaved by line files) and BSQ (band sequential in one file) added to the individual band sequential files supported by the earlier version; all formats can be 8-16 bits per pixel including swapped word order
• redesign of the data file access system to allow access to hyperspectral data up to 256 bands
• a new index file format
• provides room for future features
• old format index files can be used but updating them via the Index Wizard is recommended to add new capabilities
• the Help exercise, Update Index, leads you through the conversion process
• many, many improvements to the user-interface