Transformation on the view

• Translation: When the geolocation tool is active you can move the mouse over the image on the screen and the cursor changes to a hand. This indicates that we can move by clicking and dragging on the raster view.
• Scaling: When the geolocation tool is active you can move the mouse over the edges of the image on screen and the mouse cursor will change. Depending on the chosen edge the cursor will take one form or another. If placed in the top or bottom borders the cursor will become a vertical arrow. This indicates that we can click and drag to scale the image from one side only. The scaling at all times keep the proportions of the raster. If we move the cursor around the side edges the pointer becomes a horizontal arrow now allowing us to scale laterally. In the case of the corners the cursor appears as an oblique arrow.
• Rotation: When the geolocation tool is active, we can move the mouse over the outer corners of the image and the cursor will change. This will appear as a circular arrow. This indicates that we can begin to rotate the raster from the selected corner.
• Shear: When the geolocation tool is active you can move your mouse over the outer side edges of the image and the mouse cursor will change. This will appear as an arrow with a symbol X or Y depending on whether the mouse is in the horizontal or vertical edges respectively. This indicates that we can begin to warp the raster in the direction of the X or the Y.

Vista Panel Image Geolocation

Transformation by introducing coordinates

From the geolocation floating box we can modify the transformation of the image on the view. The text entries marked as X, Y, Pix X, Pix Y, Rot X, Rot Y contain the current position in upper left X coordinate, upper left Y coordinate, pixel size in X, pixel size in Y, rotation in X and rotation in Y respectively. If we change these values from the keyboard these will be updated on the image by pressing the "Enter" key while the cursor is inside the text box or when it loses focus.

Controls of the geolocation box

Centering the raster layer in the view: With this button we center the raster in the current view regardless of zoom it has selected. The coordinates will be automatically calculated.

• Initialize the raster transformation: Resets all the transformations that have been applied to the cells back to the default.
• Go to the first processing: Assign the first transformation that was applied.
• Go to the previous transformation: Assign the previous transformation to the current that was applied.
• Go to the next transformation: Assigns the following to the current transformation.
• Upload georeferencing from tfw file: If we have a tfw file with georeferencing coordinates, these can be loaded with this option. A dialog to select the file you want will show up. The extension of the file must be tfw or wld.
• Save current transformation as the default for the raster: Applying this option saves the currently active transformation in the file .rmf attached to raster. Next time the raster is loaded will be with that transformation.