Clipping method: A 12-meter overlap is reserved for each side of the DOQQ image to ensure proper closure. This 12-meter is translated to 12 pixels for the 1-meter images, 4 pixels for the 3-meter images, and 2 pixels for 6-meter images. The boundary information is extracted from the BIP file header for clipping.
Resampling method: Resampling from the 1-meter to 3-meter and 6-meter datasets was conducted using the averaging method instead of the nearest-neighbor. The 3-meter data image set was created from the 1-meter set, and the 6-meter set was based on the 3-meter dataset.
In addition, the full header of each DOQQ was extracted from the image binary file and converted to ASCII text which is stored as dqxxxxyy.txt together with the BIL image file. All information regarding this particular DOQQ image can be extracted from this text file.