The Tools menu offers options related to more complex encoding functions.
| Menu Item | Function |
|---|---|
| Metadata... |
Brings up the Metadata Manager. This provides fields for inputting the classical MrSID user metadata tags for company name, copyright, credit, summary, keywords, comments, image ID, imaging date, imaging time, source device, scan info, and geographic location. These tags are only available for MrSID Image and Mosaic encode operations. |
| Despeckling... | Brings up Despeckling Options dialog, where you can choose to despeckle your image or tile and set despeckling options. |
| Image crop... | Brings up the Image Crop dialog box. This tool enables you to specify a region of interest for the selected job by entering coordinates in the text fields or by drawing a rectangle in the visual representation of the image. You can choose to represent the region of interest in either pixels or geospatial coordinates. The supported rectangle descriptions are edge offset (the classical format), upper-left lower-right, upper-left width-height, and center width-height. |
| Area of interest… | Brings up the Area of Interest dialog box. The area of interest controls look and operate much the same way as those of the image crop function. However, whereas image crop permanently removes all data from the area outside the desired region, area of interest can be used to increase or decrease the level of visual quality in a particular region of an image, or to make a desired region download completely before the rest of the image is resolved. |
| Color balance… |
Brings up the Color Balance dialog box, enabling you to balance brightness, contrast and color values among mosaic tiles. |
| Reproject... | Brings up the Reprojection Manager enabling you to reproject one or multiple images from one spatial reference system (SRS, sometimes also called a coordinate reference system or CRS) to another. |
| Publish images… | Brings up the Publish Images dialog box, enabling you to publish existing images directly to an Express Server. |