Panchromatic Image File

Panchromatic Image

Last updated: October 7, 2021

Overview¶

An ARD panchromatic image is a single-band black and white image that has been minimally processed for analytics. The following pre-processing steps are applied:

Atmospheric compensation
Orthorectification to native resolution, as captured by the sensor

Panchromatic images are saved as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG):

processed using GDAL's COG output format using default settings
DEFLATE compression
NoData pixels are encoded in a mask band

Example image¶

This is an example of a panchromatic ARD image over San Francisco, CA USA.

panchromatic image

Bands¶

Panchromatic (black and white) imagery has a single band:

band name	description
BAND_P	pan

File information¶

File type: Raster GeoTIFF

File name: {acquisitionID}-pan.tif

File path: bucket or location/prefix/UTM zone/quadkey/acquisition date/