Earth:MicroMSI

MicroMSI for Windows is a remote sensing imagery analysis program designed for use in introductory courses in remote sensing, developed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. MicroMSI for Windows is a "public domain program and can be freely redistributed for non-commercial purposes", after modern terminology freeware.

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), NDVI, unsupervised classification, spectral classification and stereo anaglyph displays added to the gray-level, multiband (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

References

• MicroMSI at NGA