
Image Processing
Offering image processing to meet all your imagery requirements
We ensure that the final image you receive adds value to your projects or business activity. We have an in-house Production Department manned by highly skilled imagery analysts and image processing professionals.

Standard Image Processing
Space Imaging Middle East’s image processing professionals are experts in performing a wide range of processes to enhance the raw image and increase the usability of the image.
Some of the most commonly performed processes include:
Geo-Referencing

Satellite Imagery in digital form represents a grid of numbers. To understand where the imagery fits on the surface of Earth, one has to Geo-reference the image. Geo-referencing is the method by which raw imagery is accurately positioned to the exact location on the earth's surface. SIME’s in-house production team performs this meticulous process by taking references from a number of sources to ensure the highest possible accuracy in the resulting image.
Image to Image Registration

Seamless Countrywide Mosaicks

Projections & Transformations

Tiling

A country wide imagery data is too large to be accommodated in most image viewing applications and this is a difficult proposition if the client wants only a small area or a part of the image to be viewed. SIME offers a solution to this by tiling the image to manageable image tiles in terms of size and in TIFF, JPG, MrSID and other client specified formats. In this way the management, retrieval and updating of the images will be easy. Each of the tiles will be numbered in a sequential manner and the tile index will also be supplied to understand the layout of the tiles.

Specialized Processing
Along with standard image processes, SIME has some special processes which employ spectral manipulation to derive transformed images to meet the end-user’s requirements.
Some of these processes include:
True Color / Natural Color Generation

Pan Sharpening / Image Fusion

Haze Reduction

Earth’s surface properties are captured by all Earth-observing satellite sensors. Under certain circumstances haze from water vapor and aerosol particles influence the recorded signal. Additionally, in high terrain areas, varying illumination conditions due to collection angles and time of capture alter the real spectral behavior of surfaces. The haze reduction process eliminates haze, atmospheric and solar illumination effects.

Orthorectification
Orthorectification of a basic satellite image is the most commonly requested image processing service. SIME’s image processing professionals excel in producing correct and distortion-free satellite and aerial image for its clients.
Orthorectification of Satellite Imagery

True Ortho of Aerial Imagery


Digital Data Generation
One of the most frequently demanded image by-products is a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and SIME’s team of image processing professionals prides itself in producing fully-featured DEMs and highly accurate 3D/2D vector data sets.
Digital Elevation / Terrain Models

- Hard Break lines
- Soft Break lines
- Ridgelines
- Spot heights
Planimetry Data Generation
