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IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite

Process Radar Data in the ERDAS IMAGINE Environment
Radar mapping is known for its precision, providing different detailed information that cannot be extracted using traditional photogrammetric methods. The IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite provides specialized tools for processing radar data in a standard remote sensing or GIS environment. With tools for georectifying, filtering and calibrating radar images, you can derive elevation information regardless of cloud cover, day or night from stereo or interferometric pairs. In addition, you can determine surface changes or displacement to centimeter level accuracy, including areas where the ground is sinking from an earthquake or a tunnel is sinking on a construction site.

The Radar Mapping Suite includes the following modules for ERDAS IMAGINE:

IMAGINE OrthoRadar
IMAGINE Radar Interpreter
IMAGINE StereoSAR DEM
IMAGINE SAR Interferometry

Why is Radar Imagery Important to You?
Recently, we have seen the launch of a variety of new radar satellites. Radar imagery is now being utilized for a broad range of applications, including defense and intelligence surveillance, oil and gas exploration, ice monitoring, agricultural and environmental monitoring, disaster response (spills and floods) and much more.

Created in Cooperation with DLR
Intelligent user interfaces, wizard workflows and data-derived defaults are included throughout IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite, ensuring user-friendly information extraction from radar imagery. These unique radar mapping tools are developed by ERDAS in cooperation with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and GEOSYSTEMS GmbH.

Save Your Radar Data in Any Raster Format
Create color images to examine the magnitude of change, binary images to detect the most dramatic changes, shapefiles for GIS applications and more. Utilizing the power of ERDAS IMAGINE, these tools are interoperable, supporting all raster file formats, with the ability to seamlessly connect your radar data to any ERDAS solution and many other geospatial products.

Supports Most SAR Satellite Sensors
IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite supports a growing number of satellite sensors, including RADARSAT-1/2, ERS-1/2, ENVISAT ASAR, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X (with one meter spotlight modes), and COSMO-SkyMed. Data from other radar sensors is supported by a generic import interface.