Contour Lines

Contour Lines

Creates contour lines for the currently loaded band or product.

Location

To bring up the "Contour Lines" window click this tool button in the "Layers" tool bar or select the corresponding menu item in "Tools -> Contour" or right click on a product/band image and select "Contour". NOTE: this tool can only be accessed if the image of a band or product is displayed.

Details

Introduction

Contour Lines Tool User Interface

The user interface of "Contour Lines" tool is divided into three sections.

• The top section displays the name of the product or band that will be the source of the contour operator. By default, the band is filtered using a 5x5 filter. A user can select a desired filter using the "Choose Filter" button, or un-check the checkbox next to the "Choose Filter" button to use the unfiltered, original band to generate contour lines. When an unfiltered band is used, the contour operation takes considerably longer amount of time to create the contour interval lines. Thus, it is highly recommended to use filtered bands.

• The middle section allows the setting of the parameters Start Value, End Value, Number of Levels, and Log for the contour operator. Based on the start value, the end value, the number of levels, and the log/linear factor, the "Contour" tool auto-generates contour intervals. Users can view the generated levels using the "Preview/Edit" button and modify the contour interval name, contour value, contour line color, and contour line style. Contour line style is defined using two variables: line dash length and line space length. Line dash length cannot be zero or a negative number. When "line space length" is zero, it indicates the line is solid.

• The middle section has two additional buttons for managing contour intervals. The button with the minus ("-") image deletes the group of contour intervals and the button with the plus ("+") image adds a new UI block for creating another set of contour intervals.

• The last section contains buttons that initiates the execution or cancellation of the contour operation.

Start Value

Sets the start value for contour levels.

End Value

Sets the end value for contour levels.

Number or Levels

Specifies the number of contour levels.

Log

The contour interval values between the start and end values are auto-generated using either a linear or log distribution factor. However, in "Preview/Edit" window, users can enter any values for contour intervals.

Preview/Edit

Clicking on this button will display a dialog box that helps to customize the automatically generated contour intervals. Users can change all fields in this dialog box. Once the changes are saved, the contour interval values cannot be changed in the main Contour UI. They can only be changed in the "Preview/Edit" window.