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IMPACT Toolbox

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
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.



DOWNLOAD: IMPACT Toolbox

Manual & Case Studies can be retireved here: here

Sample Landsat & Sentinel2 images: here



Changelogs Version v5.68b (26/07/2022)
  • Multidate Segmentation accepts different projections
  • Add Planet.com data browser
  • New GEE authentication method
  • Fix minor bugs on TMF Validation tool
  • Fix GEE time series gui
  • Optimized Sentinel-2 processing - skip MSK_*
  • Landsat 9 support
  • Fix query mode

... more info ...


Outdated resources User Manual v1.0 - EN  5.7 MB
Sentinel 2A processing Guide  614.7 KB
Leaftlet - EN  869.4 KB

Training Exercises: English | French


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

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

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