{"id":5539,"date":"2023-04-19T17:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:33:35","slug":"what-are-multispectral-outputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/what-are-multispectral-outputs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Multispectral Outputs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multispectral outputs are made up of bands within the multispectral spectral ranges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The different options include true colour, false colour urban, false colour infrared, and all optical bands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>True colour<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A true colour image combines the red, green, and blue bands. It\u2019s a close representation of what humans see in real life. True colour is a good baseline if you\u2019re unsure which image output is best for your project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>False Colour Urban<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A false colour urban composite image combines shortwave infrared 1 (SWIR1), shortwave infrared 2 (SWIR2), and red bands. False colour images have wavelengths that we can\u2019t see with the human eye. An example use case for the False Colour Urban output is tracking urban sprawl and identifying areas at risk of flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>False Colour Infrared<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A False Colour Infrared image combines near-infrared, red, and green bands. Geospatial experts use this imagery to distinguish detailed features, such as buildings, water, vegetation, snow, ice etc. As you can see, vegetation is especially highlighted in this type of output.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Panchromatic<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A black &amp; white file comprised of the panchromatic band. Panchromatic files are often used to digitally sharpen images as the panchromatic sensor captures the ground at a finer resolution than other sensors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>RGB + NIR<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A true colour image with red, green, blue and near-infrared bands. The result will return a PNG true-colour image, as well as a GeoTIFF containing RGB + NIR bands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>All Optical Bands<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A file containing all bands captured by the sensor. This includes red, green, blue and near infrared, along with panchromatic and additional bands (when available from the sensor).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multispectral outputs are made up of bands within the multispectral spectral ranges. The different options include true colour, false colour urban, false colour infrared, and all optical bands.\u00a0 True colour A true colour image combines the red, green, and blue bands. It\u2019s a close representation of what humans see in real life. True colour is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-multispectral-outputs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7487,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}