[UW-GIS-L] scatterplot in excel

Phil Hurvitz phurvitz at u.washington.edu
Mon Aug 21 10:51:51 PDT 2006


Don't Imagine and ENVI do band scatterplots natively?

-P.

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Harvey Greenberg wrote:

> Are you trying to get an ascii file with 2 values for each pixel?  To do 
> that, you would dump each band to ascii (assuming that the TM bands are 
> separate grids) with GRIDASCII at the arc prompt in the black command window. 
> Then at the unix prompt (If you don't have one get one.):
> tr -s '\012\015 ' '\012\012\012' < first_gridascii_dump |  sed 1,12d  > tmp1
> tr -s '\012\015 ' '\012\012\012' < second_gridascii_dump | sed 1,12d  > tmp2
> paste tmp1 tmp2 > file_for_excel.txt
>
> Of course, a large geographic area would be overwhelming.
> And this technique would not support the frequency of identical pairs.  For 
> that, you would combine (The grid COMBINE function will do this.) two bands 
> in one grid, enter "tables" from the arc command, and UNLOAD the VAT.
>
> I could flesh this out in detail, but I suspect that someone will convince 
> you that excel is not the best tool for spectral analysis.
>
> harvey
>
>
> KT wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I want to prepare a scatterplot of Landfsat TM bands, for instance, band 5 
>> versus band 7 in Excel. Is it possible? If not, how can I plot this graph 
>> in excel?
>> Thanks all
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