Overview

This course is an introduction to the latest IMAGINE Essentials and Advantage software. Instructors will present some basic concepts of remote sensing and GIS, providing an extensive foundation in image processing and GIS. Classification, orthorectification and image mosaics are also presented. This course will be run on version 8.7 of the software.

Audience

New users to imagery software

Goals

  • Navigate around the IMAGINE Essentials interface

  • Perform spatial and spectral enhancements on multispectral imagery

  • Import digital data into IMAGINE Essentials

  • Organize datasets in a catalogue

  • Drape images in a 3-D perspective

  • Assign geographical coordinates to an image

  • Create a geometrically corrected image

  • Generate a land cover classification from a multispectral image

  • Introduction to Knowledge Classifier to improve classifications

  • Create printer-ready map compositions

  • Navigate around the IMAGINE Advantage interface

  • Create an orthorectified image

  • Mosaic several images

  • Merge spatially different data

  • Generate surfaces from point data

  • Perform simple raster GIS functions

Topics

IMAGINE Software: Navigate around the IMAGINE Essentials and IMAGINE Advantage interfaces; Perform simple raster GIS functions; Merge spatially different data.

Image Draping: Drape images in a 3-D perspective.

Image Enhancements: Perform spatial and spectral enhancements on multispectral imagery.

Image Catalogue and Archiving: Organize datasets in a catalogue.

Peripheral Configuration: Basic configurations.

Data Importing and Batch Processing: Import digital data into IMAGINE Essentials.

Image Registration to a Geographic Reference: Assign geographical coordinates to an image; Create a

geometrically corrected image.

Basic Land Cover Classification: Generate a land cover classification from a multispectral image.

Knowledge Classifier: Introduction to Knowledge Classifier to improve classifications.

Basic Map Compositions: Create printer-ready map compositions.

Orthorectification Image Mosaic Surface: Create an orthorectified image; Mosaic several images.

Generation Image Interpreter Functions: Generate surfaces from point data.

Prerequisites

  • None. This course is for people new to the ERDAS IMAGINE software.

Duration: Three days

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