Glint in WorldView 2 Image

[RamiSaeed]

Hello All,

I got my hands on an 8 band WorldView 2 image, sadly the entire image is covered with sun glint since its a marine image... i would like to know of how to remove this glint problem... Thanks

[Luke_Pinner]

Sorry, I don't know. It's only been tested on 4.8/5.0 so it may not run on 4.7 especially since you had issues running the original code on 4.7.

[RamiSaeed]

Hey, installed it on 4.8 and the following happened...

So i opened my file and selected my ROI for deep water:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19008[/ATTACH]

And went ahead with the rest of the inputs:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19009[/ATTACH]

However, when i pressed ok the following happened following with a complete software shutdown:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19010[/ATTACH]

Any thoughts?

[Luke_Pinner]

You're trying to run it in ENVI. The script only works in ENVI+IDL.

[Luke_Pinner]

This one runs in ENVI runtime (attached)

[RamiSaeed]

Hey, it worked, both of them... about the results were the first four bands where completely white, and then the 5th and 6th did show something, while the last bands where completely gray, couldn't make a composite out of the results because nothing shows... I'll fiddle with the histogram and see what i can get..

[Luke_Pinner]

I didn't bother building in any "pretty display" code.

When I run the script on radiance values (standard ENVI Worldview 2 radiance calculation) I get the following displayed:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19135[/ATTACH]

But simply stretching the display (enhance menu) the image displays fine:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19136[/ATTACH]

Running the script on raw digital numbers (Digitalglobe IMD format, TIFF or ENVI format) I get the image displaying ok (if a little washed out) first time.

Not a big deal, I prefer to control the display stretch myself anyway.

The band you specified as the NIR band is output as grey as the sampled data (always NIR band) is regressed against each band and when this is done for the NIR band (i.e same values), the slope will always be 1. 

Note I get better results using band 7 than band 8 for deglinting Worldview2.

[PaulaNieto]

Hello!
Anyone knows how to apply this code for a Quickbird image?

Thanks!

[Luke_Pinner]

Exactly the same way. Define ROI, run the tool and follow the prompts. NIR is band 4 for Quickbird imagery.

[PaulaNieto]

Thank you!
Thats what I thought, but I get this error
% Compiled module: $MAIN$.
% Attempt to subscript SAMPLES with <INT      (       4)> is out of range.

[PaulaNieto]

Hello again,

About the error I have, if I change the band number to a 3 instead of a 4 (for Quickbird), the code starts, although I get another error:
M               FLOAT     =  1.00112e-005
% Unable to allocate memory: to make array.

Therefore, I guess its also a problem with band number 4.

Im new using envi, so I have no much experience. Thank you, your help is highly appreciated.