ENVIAgCalculateAndRasterizeZoneMetricsWithSpectralIndexTask

This task creates a spectral index image and calculates statistics from it and an associated ENVIAgZones object. It creates a classification raster showing the relative statistics of the zones or a greyscale raster showing the actual statistical values of the zones.

ENVIAgCalculateAndRasterizeZoneMetricsWithSpectralIndexTask is a metatask that automatically runs the following tasks:

This task is part of ENVI Crop Science, which requires a separate license and installation.

Example

This example:

Opens a hyperspectral raster.
Creates a Moisture Stress Index raster from the hyperspectral raster.
Runs ENVIAgCreateZonesTask to create zones from the Moisture Stress Index raster.
Runs ENVIAgCalculateAndRasterizeZoneMetricsWithSpectralIndexTask using the hyperspectral image as input.
Computes mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values for each zone.
Displays a classification image showing the relative NDVI means for each zone.

The hyperspectral source data were provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The hyperspectral image was previously subsetted and masked to include a single agricultural field.

; Start the application

e = ENVI()

; Open a hyperspectral image

File = Filepath('NEONHyperspectral1m.dat', $

  Subdir=['data','crop_science'], $

  Root_Dir=e.Root_Dir)

Raster = e.OpenRaster(File)

; Create a Moisture Stress Index raster

indexTask = ENVITask('SpectralIndex')

indexTask.INPUT_RASTER = Raster

indexTask.INDEX = 'Moisture Stress Index'

indexTask.Execute

MSIRaster = indexTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

; Create a zones object from the Moisture

; Stress Index raster

zonesTask = ENVITask('AgCreateZones')

zonesTask.INPUT_RASTER = MSIRaster

zonesTask.MINIMUM_AREA = 1000

zonesTask.NUMBER_OF_APPLICATION_CATEGORIES = 4

zonesTask.Execute

; Calculate zone metrics using NDVI from the

; hyperspectral image

Task = ENVITask('AgCalculateAndRasterizeZoneMetricsWithSpectralIndex')

Task.INPUT_RASTER = Raster

Task.INDEX = 'Normalized Difference Vegetation Index'

Task.CLASSIFICATION = 'true'

Task.INPUT_ZONES = zonesTask.OUTPUT_ZONES

Task.INPUT_ZONE_RASTER = zonesTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

Task.Execute

; Get the collection of objects currently in the Data Manager

DataColl = e.Data

; Add the output to the data collection

DataColl.Add, Task.OUTPUT_RASTER

; Display the result

View = e.GetView()

Layer = View.CreateLayer(MSIRaster)

Layer2 = View.CreateLayer(Task.OUTPUT_RASTER)

View.Zoom, 3.0

Syntax

Result = ENVITask('AgCalculateAndRasterizeZoneMetricsWithSpectralIndex')

Input properties (Set, Get): CLASSIFICATION, INDEX, INPUT_RASTER, INPUT_ZONE_RASTER, INPUT_ZONES, OUTPUT_METRIC, OUTPUT_RASTER_URI, OUTPUT_ZONES_URI

Output properties (Get only): OUTPUT_RASTER, OUTPUT_ZONES

Properties marked as "Init" are applied only during the initial creation of the object. Properties marked as "Set" are those that you can set to specific values after the object has been created. You can also retrieve their current values any time. Properties marked as "Get" are those whose values you can retrieve but not set.

Methods

This task inherits the following methods from ENVITask. See the ENVITask topic in ENVI Help.

AddParameter
Execute
Parameter
ParameterNames
RemoveParameters

Properties

This task inherits the following properties from ENVITask:

COMMUTE_ON_DOWNSAMPLE

COMMUTE_ON_SUBSET

DESCRIPTION

DISPLAY_NAME

NAME

REVISION

See the ENVITask topic in ENVI Help for details.

This task also contains the following properties:

CLASSIFICATION (optional)

Set this property to true to create a classification image showing the relative pattern of a selected zone metric. The default value is false, which will create a greyscale image with the actual values of a zone metric.

INDEX (required)

Specify a string indicating the spectral index from which to calculate zone metrics. See the ENVISpectralIndexRaster topic in ENVI Help for a full list of spectral indices. You can also run ENVIQuerySpectralIndicesTask to see what indices are available for your particular image.

INPUT_RASTER (required)

Specify a multispectral raster from which zone metrics will be computed.

INPUT_ZONE_RASTER (optional)

Specify the zone classification raster that corresponds to the input zones. It allows metrics to be calculated faster for large images.

INPUT_ZONES (required)

Specify an input ENVIAgZones object.

OUTPUT_METRIC (required)

Specify one of the following strings, indicating the metric that the output raster will be based on.

Zone Minimum
Zone Maximum
Zone Mean (default)
Zone Standard Deviation

OUTPUT_RASTER

This is a reference to the output zones classification raster or greyscale raster.

OUTPUT_RASTER_URI (optional)

Specify a string with the fully qualified filename and path of the output raster. If you do not specify this property, the output raster is only temporary. Once the raster has no remaining references, ENVI deletes the temporary file.

OUTPUT_ZONES

This is a reference to the output zones data.

OUTPUT_ZONES_URI (optional)

Specify a string with the fully qualified filename and path for the output .sav file that will contain the zones data.

Version History

1.1	Introduced
1.1.1	Added INPUT_ZONE_RASTER property