The Tasseled Cap

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BAND TRANSFORMATIONS
CHAPTER 11
The Tasseled Cap Transformation
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The Tasseled Cap
mature vegetation
MSS6
dry soil (bright)
The variation of MSS pixel positions
corresponding to growing vegetation, as related
to the tasseled cap transformation
line of soils (brightness)
humid soil (dark)
MSS5
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The Tasseled Cap
Greeness
Plane of vegetation
Brightness
Plane of soils
Wetness
The planes and axes of the tasseled cap
transformation
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BANDS OF THE LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER
TC Bands MSS4 MSS5 MSS6 MSS7
Brightness 0.433 0.632 0.586 0.264
Greenness -0.290 -0.562 0.600 0.491
Yellowness -0.829 0.522 -0.039 0.194
Nonesuch 0.233 0.012 -0.543 0.810
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BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER BANDS OF THE LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER
Bande TC TM1 TM2 TM3 TM4 TM5 TM7
Brightness 0.3037 0.2793 0.4743 0.5585 0.5082 0.1863
Greenness -0.2848 -0.2435 -0.5436 0.7243 0.0840 -0.1800
Wetness 0.1509 0.1973 0.3279 0.3406 0.7112 -0.4572
Haze 0.8832 -0.0819 -0.4580 -0.0032 -0.0563 0.0130
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TC 1 Brightness
TC 2 Greenness
TC 3 Wetness
A color composite (R1, G2, B3) of the
tasseled cap bands. Blue corresponds to
wetness, green to greeness and red to
brightness. Water and fresh vegetation are
depicted in a natural way. Light violet (almost
white) corresponds to newly planted rice fields,
violet corresponds to grown ones.
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