GAMMA Questions

Hi everybody,

We are a bunch of people using GAMMA. It is a good software which got its advantages and disadvantages like very other software or product.

I guess all of you discovered already some problems and limitations of GAMMA. So I guess we could collect some ideas, how GAMMA could be improved by adding or changing some small feature.
Since we are a relatively big user group we could ask GAMMA to consider our recommendations. This would help us and the GAMMA company to improve the software so it fits the user requirements. Well, we should of course state why it would be better and so on ....

My first recommendation:

Include a parameter to define the search radius for the offset tracking programs. The people from GAMMA told me that the search radium (or distance in range and azimuth) is defined by 1/3 of the tracking window size. Consequently, I need to define large tracking window sizes if I expect wide displacements of the features. But large tracking window sizes influence strongly the tracking results, especially in the area where the moving and non moving features are close (e.g. the lateral boundaries of glaciers). By defining the search radius and tracking window size the processing can be better adjusted to the study area and data (e.g. small features but long temporal base line -> wide displacement -> large search radium, small/medium tracking window size). Furthermore it could also reduce the computation time in areas where you need large tracking windows but the expected displacements are quite small.