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True color conversion

An algorithm that converts RGB bands in Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, or SPOT imagery to 8-bit true color.

Overview

The process applies color curve correction and bit conversion to 16-bit encoded RGB bands in Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, or SPOT imagery. The result is a 8-bit true color GeoTIFF file.

True color correction can be used as a preprocessing step before applying analytics processes.

An input Pléiades Neo image of Henningsvær (Norway)
A true color converted output

General

Specification Description
Provider UP42
Process type

Enhancement from 4 credits per km2

Requirements for input imagery

Input data items must be added to storage in 2023 or later.

CollectionData product

Pléiades

Tasking: Custom, with basic or surface reflectance radiometric processing level, with 16-bit encoded RGB bands.

Catalog:

  • Analytic
  • Pansharpened Reflectance

Pléiades Neo

Tasking: Custom, with basic or surface reflectance radiometric processing level, with 16-bit encoded RGB bands.

Catalog:

  • Analytic
  • Pansharpened Reflectance

SPOT

Tasking: Custom, with basic or surface reflectance radiometric processing level, with 16-bit encoded RGB bands.

Catalog:

  • Analytic
  • Pansharpened Reflectance

Input parameters

Use the true-color-conversion name ID for the processing API.

JSON
{
  "inputs": {
    "title": "Processing imagery over Berlin",
    "item": "https://api.up42.com/v2/assets/stac/collections/21c0b14e-3434-4675-98d1-f225507ded99/items/23e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
  }
}
Parameter Overview
inputs.title string | required

The title of the output data item.
inputs.item string | required

The absolute API path to the input data item.