The Tile and General Research Imaging System (TIGRIS)

Author

Simpson, Jalmes J. ; Al-Rawi, Lance L.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Digital Image Anal., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

34

Issue

1

fYear

1996

fDate

1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

162

Abstract

The Tile and General Research Imaging System (TIGRIS) is a UNIX-based image software system implemented in, and strictly conforming to, UNIX, C/ANSI C, and X11 Window standards. The TIGRIS design and implementation emulates UNIX at the user, application, and system levels. The TIGRIS Application Programmer Interface (API) provides a convenient way to create diverse image processing and analysis applications. TIGRIS has been used primarily to support satellite remote sensing, global change research, and operational activities. Numerous applications related to specific remote sensing issues (e.g., cloud detection, noise reduction in AVHRR Channel 3 data, oceanic transport) are included in the application layer. In addition, a number of powerful general purpose imaging applications (e.g., image algebra, morphological operations, textural analysis) are provided which support general image processing, analysis, interactive visualization, and noninteractive image product generation. Use of TIGRIS to accomplish a few complex image analysis tasks is demonstrated

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image processing; remote sensing; Application Programmer Interface; C/ANSI C; TIGRIS; Tile and General Research Imaging System; UNIX; X11 Window standards; geophysical measurement technique; image processing; image software system; land surface; remote sensing; terrain mapping; ANSI standards; Application software; Image analysis; Image processing; Image texture analysis; Programming profession; Remote sensing; Software standards; Software systems; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.481900

Filename

481900