San Julian Anticlinorium
Thematic Mapper band 6
This image is the sixth channel of the Thematic Mapper scanner mounted
on the Landsat 4 and 5 satellite, but is the seventh spectrally. Its
wavelength is in the thermal infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum
and is outside the range of human vision. Its specific wavelength is
10.40µ to 12.50µ. This spectral range is useful for thermal
mapping (especially using nightime images) and estimating soil moisture.
This image has been contrast enhanced using a gaussian stretch with a sigma
value of 2.5 and a light high pass filter applied to bring out detail.
The raw un-enhanced version of
this file is available.