[GRASS-user] i.atcorr for GeoEye-1 and Worldview-3

[Nikos Alexandris]

* Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> [2015-06-05 12:28:50 +0200]:

> On 05/06/15 10:52, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> > * Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> [2015-06-05 09:43:40 +0200]:
> >
> > ..
> >
> >>>> Maybe with a little more crowd-hunting or by someone just contacting
> >>>> DigitalGlobe we would get the table of values right away?
> >>>
> >>> I tried to contact DigitalGlobe in the past about WV2.  I did not
> >>> succeed back then.  Maybe now if someone has recently bought some WV3
> >>> imagery.
> >>
> >> Is this data confidential ? I would imagine that for DigitalGlobe it is
> >> an advantage if software can use their products, or ?
> >
> > I don't think this data is confidential. If we dig more, it must be
> > somewhere. But, as with WV2, and other sensors, when I set out to get
> > the respective numbers, I realised that it wasn't a str8 line.  For
> > example, <http://apollomapping.com/> offered these numbers in white
> > papers and excel files, while DG did not.
> >
> > Note, that commercial software did have these numbers integrated already
> > in their corresponding processing tools. And, though I haven't checked,
> > I guess there is already the option to perform conversions and
> > atmospherric corrections for WV3 imagery.
> >
> > If these data are for sale, I am in to contribute in buying them, as
> > much as I can.
> 
> The problem is not only getting the data, but being allowed to integrate 
> them into GPL'ed source code.

Maybe this explains everything, after all.

 
> I'll see if I can do the approximation from the graphs today, so that we 
> already have something to start with.

Apologies Moritz, I am not in position to try this out today or
tomorrow.

Nikos