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IMPACT Toolbox offers a combination of remote sensing, photo interpretation and processing technologies in a portable and stand-alone GIS environment, allowing non specialist users to easily accomplish all necessary pre-processing steps while giving a fast and user-friendly environment for visual editing and map validation. No installation or virtual machines are required.

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Quick Data Visualization

  • Raster and vector visualization
  • Adjustable bands and stretch
  • Fast rendering with tiling approach
  • Data auto-load and refresh
  • Processing buttons for easy access

Map Visualization & Editing

  • Easy and efficient editing environment
  • Selection and recoding by:
    • class or cluster
    • single or multi polygon
  • 1 click edit
  • Class masking / showing
  • Customizable legend
  • On the fly .dbf file editing

Ground Truth Collection

Collection of ground truth data at local, national or global scale is now faster with a built-it feature editor supporting either systematic samples collection or wall-to-wall feature labeling.

  • Built-it degradation menu with identification of location, causes and intensity
  • Customizable legend

Version 5

IMPACT v5 now runs on Windows, Unix and Mac operating system, allowing desktop and server installation. It comes with up to date processing and rendering libraries such as Python3, Gdal 3.1, ExtJs 7, Google Earth Engine Api.

Downloads & links

IMPACT Toolbox: here

Manual & Case Studies: here

Sample Landsat & Sentinel2 images: here

Source code: https://bitbucket.org/jrcimpact/impact5

For further information contact: Simonetti Dario

Changelogs

Version 5.312b

  • GEE tool now shows NDVI profiles, minor updates
  • Improved Image Segmentation importing existing vector map
  • Updated EUFO tool with GFC 2020 V3
  • Add GFC 2020 v3 WMS
  • Add map overlay box
  • Improved Remote Data rendering and exclusion from DB
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Outdated resources

User Manual v1.0: EN

Sentinel 2A processing Guide: here

Leaftlet: EN

Training Exercises: English | French

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2015, European Union
All rights reserved.
Authors: Simonetti Dario, Marelli Andrea

IMPACT toolbox 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 (at your option) any later version.

IMPACT toolbox is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Main Reference

Simonetti D., Marelli A., Eva H.D., 2015 IMPACT: Portable GIS toolbox image processing and land cover mapping Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, EUR 27358 EN, ISBN 978-92-79-50115-9 https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC96789

Other references related to the use of the tool

[1] Simonetti D., Simonetti E., Szantoi Z., Lupi A., and Eva H. D., 2015 First results from the phenology-based synthesis classifier using Landsat 8 imagery IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing letters https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC95065

[2] Baatz M. and Schäpe A., 2000 Multiresolution segmentation: an optimization approach for high quality multi-scale image segmentation XII Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung, Heidelberg

[3] Câmara, G., Vinhas, L., Ferreira, K., Queiroz, G., Souza, R., 2008 TerraLib: An open source GIS library for largescale environmental and socio-economic applications Open Source, pp. 247-270

JRC Reports

Simonetti D., Degrève L., Bourgoin C., Achard F., Colditz R., 2025 Geospatial analysis tools supporting the risk assessment of the Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains Publications Office of the European Union https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/a9ec1c5d-3780-11f0-8a44-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Desclee B., Simonetti D., Velasco Gomez M., Onywere S., Magige J., 2025 Impacts of changes in land cover, climate and soil conditions on the levels of lakes in the Kenya Great Rift Valley Publications Office of the European Union https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/d84d2a86-da2b-11f0-8da2-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Simonetti D., Desclee B., Clerici M., 2024 Development of operational RUSLE soil erosion model in the JRC IMPACT toolbox Publications Office of the European Union https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/eecce054-b1f6-11ef-acb1-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

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