This course is an introduction to the latest IMAGINE Essentials and IMAGINE Advantage software. Instructors will present some basic concepts of remote sensing and GIS, providing a foundation in image processing and GIS. Classification, orthorectification, and image mosaicking are also presented. (3 day class)

Learn to:

• Navigate around the IMAGINE Essentials and IMAGINE Advantage interfaces
• Import digital data into the IMAGINE Environment
• Use the IMAGINE Viewer to display imagery, vector files and other data sets
• Create, edit and integrate ESRI Shape files
• Perform spatial and spectral enhancements on multispectral imagery
• Process multiple files using Batch Wizards
• Create image libraries and catalogs
• Assign geographical coordinates to an image to create geometrically corrected and orthorectified imagery
• Mosaic several images to produce one seamless output
• Drape images in a 3D perspective viewer
• Perform a basic land cover classification using a multispectral image
• Improve a classification using the ERDAS IMAGINE Knowledge Classifier
• Perform simple raster GIS functions
• Create print-ready maps with the Map Composer