PARGE®
Parametric Geocoding & Orthorectification for Airborne Optical Scanner Data
What's PARGE® ?
PARGE® is the orthorectification and direct geocoding software for airborne optical scanner data. It performs an ortho-rectification of line scanner imagery using a digital elevation model on the basis of high precision flight parameters such as GPS position and attitude angles. Using accurate digital elevation models and optional ground control points, sub-pixel accuracy is achieved. The program is suited for the correction of all kinds of airborne scanner imagery and is optimized for airborne hyperspectral instruments. Directly supported sensors so far are: HyMap, Probe-1, AVIRIS, CASI, AISA (Eagle), MIVIS, Deadalus ATM, PHILLS, APEX, Samson, Resonon-PIKO, and HYSPEX.
Key Capabilities
The software offers these key advantages:
- parametric geocoding & orthorectification,
- a semi-automatic ground control point based boresight calibration procedure
- optimisation for imaging spectroscopy (hyperspectral)
- a workbench-style graphical user interface
- open internal data format and programming interface
- wide variety of resampling options
- support for raw-geometry based processing chains
- direct link to atmospheric correction package (ATCOR-4)
- customer-oriented software customization