This one-week course introduces the intelligence or military analyst to many of the tools and techniques found within ERDAS IMAGINE® and some of its add-on modules. Defense specific applications form the backbone of this course and allow the students to see how to use the software in military scenarios.

• Understand basic multispectral theory
• Create customized preferences within the software
• Measure and annotate features on imagery
• Understand image information and histograms
• Use the Geospatial Light Table™ (GLT) to display multiple viewers, use thumbwheel enhancement capabilities, automatic roaming capabilities, and feature counting tools
• Import various data formats
• Recognize different military specific image and data types (NITF, RPF, CIB, CADRG, DTED, etc.)
• Enhance imagery using radiometric, spatial, and spectral techniques
• Mosaic images together to create a larger viewable area
• Perform terrain categorization using unsupervised and supervised classification techniques to separate land cover types
• Perform topographic analysis on terrain data (DTED), include creating shaded and painted reliefs
• Create effective annotation layers and map compositions
• Use the Global Retriever to catalog and query spatial data
• Use Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) to create block files for stereo imagery and producing Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
• Use Stereo Analyst to create 3D shapefiles and 3D model files from stereo imagery
• Use IMAGINE VirtualGIS® as a mission planning tool to create 3D worlds, fly-throughs, and movies