Module 5a - Remote Sensing - Introduction to ERDAS Imagine and Digital Data 1

Landcover Imagery from Washington State
Manipulated in ERDAS Imagine and exported to ArcMap

This week in Remote Sensing lab we had an introduction to ERDAS Imagine, which is software designed to manipulate and adjust the qualities of remote sensing imagery.  The various spectral bands from the imagery can be enhanced to make certain features easier to see: for example, the near infrared band is reflected off of vegetation preferentially, so an image enhancing this wavelength can be very usefule in studies of forest and agricultural land.

We are only getting started with learning how to use ERDAS, but it should be a very useful tool to extract the utmost value from remotely sensed data.