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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,

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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

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