Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: mesma
Version: 1.0.4
Summary: MESMA is both a QGIS plugin and stand-alone python package that implements the MESMA (Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis) unmixing algorithm in the field of Remote Sensing.
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/mesma
Author: Ann Crabbé (KU Leuven)
Author-email: ann.crabbe@kuleuven.be
License: UNKNOWN
Project-URL: Documentation, https://mesma.readthedocs.io
Project-URL: Source Code, https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/mesma/src
Project-URL: Issue Tracker, https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/mesma/issues
Description: About MESMA
        ===========
        
        MESMA is both a QGIS plugin and stand-alone python package that implements the MESMA (Multiple Endmember Spectral
        Mixture Analysis) unmixing algorithm in the field of Remote Sensing.
        
        It is based on VIPER Tools: a software package written for ENVI/IDL and released in 2007.
        Several updates have been released since and now it has been ported to PyQGIS in the period 2017 - 2020.
        The original VIPER Tools is now split over two python/QGIS tools: **Spectral Library Tool** and **MESMA**.
        
        **Spectral Library Tool** provides the following:
         - Creating spectral libraries interactively (selecting spectra from an image or using regions of interest) and managing
           the metadata (developed by HU Berlin)
         - Optimizing spectral libraries with Iterative Endmember Selection, Ear-Masa-Cob or CRES
         - Website: https://spectral-libraries.readthedocs.io
         - Repository: https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/spectral-libraries
        
        **MESMA** provides the following:
         - Running SMA and MESMA (with multi-level fusion, stable zone unmixing, ...)
         - Post-processing of the MESMA results (visualisation tool, shade normalisation, ...)
         - Website: https://mesma.readthedocs.io
         - Repository: https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/mesma
        
        The software has now been developed in the open source environment to encourage further development of the tool.
        
        Referencing the MESMA tool
        ==========================
        
        When using the MESMA tool, please use the following citation:
        
        Crabbé, A. H., Somers, B., Roberts, D. A., Halligan, K., Dennison, P., Dudley, K. (2019).
        MESMA QGIS Plugin (Version x) [Software]. Available from https://bitbucket.org/kul-reseco/mesma.
        
        Acknowledgements
        ================
        
        The software and user guide are based on VIPER Tools 2.0 (UC Santa Barbara, VIPER Lab):
        Roberts, D. A., Halligan, K., Dennison, P., Dudley, K., Somers, B., Crabbe, A., 2018, Viper Tools User Manual,
        Version 2, 91 pp.
        
        MESMA is also using two python packages developed by Benjamin Jakimow and Andreas Rabe:
         - QGISPluginSupport (Benjamin Jakimow, HU Berlin): https://bitbucket.org/jakimowb/qgispluginsupport
         - hub-datacube (Andreas Rabe, HU Berlin): https://bitbucket.org/hu-geomatics/hub-datacube
        
        This revision is funded primarily through BELSPO (the Belgian Science Policy Office) in the framework
        of the STEREO III Programme – Project LUMOS - SR/01/321.
        
        Logo's were created for free at https://logomakr.com.
        
        Software Licence
        ================
        
        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
        Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
        
        What is new in the Spectral Library Tool 1.0?
        =============================================
        
        Differences between Viper Tools 2.0 and The Spectral Library Tool 1.0:
         - The migration to PyQGIS is not just a translation from IDL to Python, but also a serious re-write of the code and a
           revision of the GUI to match the look and feel of other QGIS tools.
         - Library Creation has been revised thoroughly, with integration of GIS: inside QGIS, a spectral library is now
           represented as a vector layer and each spectrum as a feature. This makes it easier to select spectra from a map,
           use polygons for selection and manage features and their metadata via the attribute table.
         - Library Creation now also has extra features to import and save spectral libraries (from raster or vector sources,
           from ASD, CSV, ARTMO, ECOSIS, ENVI en SPECCHIO).
         - The output of the Library Optimization tools has been optimized, breaking backwards compatibility with the IDL tools.
         - The EMC tool also allows for square arrays that have been run in non-reset mode.
        
Keywords: sma,mesma,szu,remote sensing
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