Finnish Meteorological Institute Image Processing Toolbox (FMIPROT) User Manual (Version 0.14)

FMI Image processing tool (FMIPROT) is software designed as a toolbox for image processing for phenological and meteorological purposes, under the MONIMET Project, funded by EU Life+ Programme (2013-2017) (http://monimet.fmi.fi). The purpose of the software was to create a platform that communicates with the MONIMET project camera network in Finland, as linking the cameras from the network and downloading images according to temporal criteria automatically. At the moment FMIPROT can communicate with multiple camera networks. The software provides a graphical interface to select all relevant criteria to analyze the images and view results on plots and maps. The software is expandable by adding various processing algorithms of images taken by cameras by users. Current functions of the software are,
(1) Communication with multiple camera networks
(2) Storing scenario conditions as files
(3) Generating reports for scenario conditions, also including analysis results
(4) Multiple scenarios
(5) Multiple analyses for each scenario
(6) Mask creation by selection with pointer
(7) Filtering images according to different means of thresholds
(8) Downloading and handling images
(9) Quantitative image archive check
(10) Expandable algorithms by plugin system
(11) Customizable Plotting/Mapping and results 
(12) Detailed logging
(13) Windows and Linux support.

The software has two processing algorithms:
(1) Color Fraction Extraction: Calculates red fraction index, green fraction index, blue fraction index, brightness, luminance, red channel mean, red channel median, red channel standard deviation, green channel mean, green channel median, green channel standard deviation, blue channel mean, blue channel median, blue channel standard deviation.
(2) Vegetation Indices: Calculates red fraction index, green fraction index, green-red vegetation index, green excess index.