The Utilization of the Old Technology in the High
Resolution Satellite Image Management
INTRODUCTION
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) applied satellite image data for
surveying and monitoring the narcotic crop especially opium poppy for more than 20 years.
Landsat and SPOT images were used and passed the process of image processing for improving
the quality of data before being the database for interpreting opium fields. One important
process for improving image data is the resolution re-sampling process. The benefit result is to
enhance the data to be more clearly detail so that the result of opium poppy field interpretation is
more accurately and the eradication is more efficiently. One more thing, the proper and
available software of image processing at that time works well and support image data. Until
2003, the necessity of using the high resolution satellite image takes a high role especially in
some specific areas where the medium satellite image data cannot give more clearly data.
Meanwhile, the technology of inventing image processing software is more advanced to catch
up with the high resolution satellite image. Both high resolution data and advanced software are
very expensive especially for the governmental part like ONCB. However, ONCB tries to use
the old software like EASI/PACE (version 6.1) and MULTISCOPE (version 2.41) with the high
resolution satellite image: QUICKBIRD to study the capacity of the old software and the
efficiency of the result. By the result of this study, it should be able to take some comments and
some points for developing the methodologies of image processing to the high resolution
satellite image in the future.
