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.
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
DOWNLOAD:
IMPACT Toolbox
410 MB
Documentation: Wiki
Training Exercises:
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Changelogs
Version 4.8.7b (11/11/2019)
New plots and trendline on MapQuery and Band Statistics
Water Dynamics Tool: multiple files, on-the-fly reprojection
Sentinel2 cloud free 2015/2017, 2018 and change layer
Load Shapefile without projection, red icon and pending status
Support for USGS Sentinel2 raw zip file
Fix Sentinel2 import with AOI subsetting
Minor bug fix
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Version 4.7.3b (10/04/2019)
Google API fix
Road Mapper tool
Raster animation
Draw line support
ForestER tool: arbitrary forest and biomass values
Clip option to keep all-touching pixels
Sentinel2: output TOA [0-1] (Float32 bit)
Add Planet data classification
Bug fixing
Version 4.6.2b (01/08/2018)
Clip option to keep all-touching pixels
Raster editing fix
Raster stats fix
Raster mosaic with LZW compression
Sentinel2: output TOA [0-1] (Float32 bit)
Bug fixing
Version 4.5.8b (04/07/2018)
Better performance with new Firefox v.60
CarbEF fix: Adds description and file names for exception map and lancover shapefile in the html and XLSX reports
MSPA from GuidosToolbox
Mosaic with force align
Histogram plot
Bug fixing
Version 4.0b (28/02/2018)
Better performance with new Firefox v.58
Context-Menu on folder
Raster Mosaic: unlimited files
Export Google Earth KML from entire directory
New raster color manager
Zonal statistics with multiband file and batch support
Raw Data import from any user directory (including network drive and usb)
CarbEF fix
MSPA from GuidosToolbox
Log Monitor fix
Bug fixing
Version 3.8b (14/11/2017)
New Vector Editing Tools
Improved Zonal Statistics Tool
Support for Sentine2 L2A and Bug Fix
Enhanced Degradation reporting tool
General UI enhancements
Overall performance improvements
Bug fixes
Version 3.7b (20/10/2017)
Sentinel2 cloud free composite WMS layer
Support for Sentine2 L2A
New GoogleEarth KML+WMK overlay
Segmentation Projection Fixed
New Raster Calculator Tool
New Vector Conversion tool
Enhanced Degration reporting tool
Enhanced Raster Conversion tool
Enhanced Raster Editing tool by AOI
Added user defined raster - vector styles support
General UI enhancements
Overall performance improvements
Bug fixes
Version 3.3a (22/05/2017)
New Segmentation tool 64bit
Bug fixes
Version 3.1.3b (21/03/2017)
Landsat Collection 1 support
New Degradation tool
New Raster Recoding tool
New Kmeans classification tool
New Principal Component Analysis (PCA) tool
General user interface simplification
Overall performance improvements
Bug fixes
Version 2.1.14b (17/11/2016)
Improved Forest Degradation module
1 Click Unzip, Layerstak and Toa-Reflectance conversion (Landsat, Sentinel2 and RapidEye)
Raster conversion tool: change projection, size, nodata, format, dataType, value
Add user defined output EPSG for Sentinel2
Add random sample selection option in fishnet module
Classification: add clouds kernel size and palette color option
Version 2.1.5b (09/06/2016)
Enhanced support for ESA's Sentinel 2A images
New forest degradation detection tool
New spatial and temporal image mosaicing tool
New image pan-sharpening tool
Vector to raster conversion tool
Bug-fixes
New self-extracting release
New self-updating release
64bit version only
Downloads
IMPACT Toolbox
410 MB
(self-extracting executable)
IMPACT Toolbox
411 MB
(compressed archive ZIP version)
User Manual v1.0 - EN
5.7 MB
(the manual IMPACT v.1.0b - An up-to-date version of the documentation is available in the WIKI )
Sentinel 2A processing Guide
614.7 KB Leaftlet - EN
869.4 KB
Other Info
For further information contact
Simonetti Dario or
Marelli Andrea
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
Other references related to the use of the tool
[2] Baatz M. and Schäpe A., 2000Multiresolution 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., 2008TerraLib: An open source GIS library for largescale environmental and socio-economic applications Open Source, pp. 247-270
Other JRC software
GuidosToolbox
contains a wide variety of generic raster image processing routines, including related
free software such as GDAL (to process geospatial data and to export them as raster image overlays in Google Earth),
and FWTools (pre/post-process and visualize any raster or vector data).