When choosing and creating a false color visualization always consider how your
features of interest will respond given the sensitivity of the chosen spectral band
to your feature and how red, green and blue will mix as bands are chosen and
placed in the respective RBG display channels.
*The visualization for this use case was created
using an enhanced false color composite that
leverages indices (as described below) in the RGB
channels to provide an boosted enhancement to
the features of interest within the image.
info@maxar.com maxar.com
USE CASE
FALSE
COLOR
EXAMPLE
Polymers/plastics 10, 12, 16
Seeing fire through smoke 16, 14, 9
Fires cool 16, 14, 12
Fires hot 14, 11, 9
Fire and healthy vegetation 14, 7 ,5
Minerals 1 11, 14, 16
Minerals 2 11, 13, 15
Minerals 3 13, 14, 16
Natural appearance 10, 11, 13
Soii moisture
12, 8, 6 or 13,
8, 5
Steel and iron 1 6, 8, 9
Trails between canopy*
WV-VI, WV-VI,
WV-WI
band band name
1 Coastal
2 Blue
3 Green
4 Yellow
5 Red
6 Red Edge
7 Near-infrared 1 (NIR1)
8 Near-infrared 2 (NIR2)
9 SWIR-1
10 SWIR-2
11 SWIR-3
12 SWIR-4
13 SWIR-5
14 SWIR-6
15 SWIR-7
16 SWIR-8