Compute Images second order statistics¶

Computes global mean and standard deviation for each band from a set of images and optionally saves the results in an XML file.

Detailed description¶

This application computes a global mean and standard deviation for each band of a set of images and optionally saves the results in an XML file. The output XML is intended to be used an input for the TrainImagesClassifier application to normalize samples before learning.

Parameters¶

This section describes in details the parameters available for this application. Table [1] presents a summary of these parameters and the parameters keys to be used in command-line and programming languages. Application key is ComputeImagesStatistics .

[1]	Table: Parameters table for Compute Images second order statistics.

Parameter Key	Parameter Type	Parameter Description
il	Input image list	Input image list
bv	Float	Float
out	Output File name	Output File name
inxml	XML input parameters file	XML input parameters file
outxml	XML output parameters file	XML output parameters file

Input images: List of input images filenames.
Background Value: Background value to ignore in statistics computation.
Output XML file: XML filename where the statistics are saved for future reuse.
Load otb application from xml file: Load otb application from xml file.
Save otb application to xml file: Save otb application to xml file.

Example¶

To run this example in command-line, use the following:

otbcli_ComputeImagesStatistics -il QB_1_ortho.tif -out EstimateImageStatisticsQB1.xml

To run this example from Python, use the following code snippet:

#!/usr/bin/python

# Import the otb applications package
import otbApplication

# The following line creates an instance of the ComputeImagesStatistics application
ComputeImagesStatistics = otbApplication.Registry.CreateApplication("ComputeImagesStatistics")

# The following lines set all the application parameters:
ComputeImagesStatistics.SetParameterStringList("il", ['QB_1_ortho.tif'])

ComputeImagesStatistics.SetParameterString("out", "EstimateImageStatisticsQB1.xml")

# The following line execute the application
ComputeImagesStatistics.ExecuteAndWriteOutput()

Limitations¶

Each image of the set must contain the same bands as the others (i.e. same types, in the same order).

Authors¶

This application has been written by OTB-Team.