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ERDAS IMAGINE Software

Erdas Imagine performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modeling to create new information. In Erdas Imagine Software, you can visualize your results in 2D, 3D, movies, and on cartographic-quality map compositions. The core of the Erdas Imagine product suite is engineered to scale with your Geo-spatial data production needs.

Erdas Imagine provides 3D visualization of digital surface models, point clouds, raster and vector feature data. It is easy-to-use, raster-based software designed specifically to extract information from images.

Erdas is the most powerful package for derived information (data production), supporting multiple workflows, including:

  • Data conversion
  • Orthorectification
  • Feature capture and update
  • Spatial modeling and analysis
  • LiDAR editing and classification
  • Terrain creation, editing and analysis
  • Color balancing, mosaicking and compression
  • Land-cover mapping and terrain categorization
  • Map and report generation and printing through the map composer or Microsoft PowerPoint or Word.

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  1. Contents Panel
  2. 2D View
  3. Map View
  4. File button
  5. Main menu (Tab)
  6. Sub–menu (Tab group)
  7. Quick Access Toolbar
  8. Help button
  9. Dock or Undock Views
  10. Hide/Show Panel
  11. Status Bar

The components of the Imagine ribbon Workspace are:

  • Views
  • Menu bar with tabs containing menus, modules, tools
  • Contents Panel of Workspace Views
  • Retriever Panel of working data
  • Title Bar
  • File button

Erdas Imagine Software Offer:

It offers many solutions in one, incorporating the following standards, enterprise capabilities and products:

  • Image analysis, Remote Sensing and GIS
  • User-friendly, customizable ribbon interface
  • Panchromatic, Multispectral and Hyperspectral imagery, Radar and LiDAR data supported
  • Spatial modeling with Raster, Vector and point cloud operators
  • High-performance terrain preparation and Mosaicking
  • Image classification and feature extraction using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) tools
  • Ability to convert more than 200 image formats into all major file formats
  • Share spatial models between Erdas Imagine and GeoMedia

Start Erdas Imagine

If you already installed Erdas Imagine software, Started it.

Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar is a toolbar you build by placing icons of frequently-used tools in a custom toolbar. The default location of this toolbar is in the upper left portion of the Title Bar in IMAGINE Workspace.

These tools are the same as the corresponding tools on the Home tab.

  1. Open
  2. Save
  3. Undo
  4. Select
  5. Zoom In
  6. Zoom Out
  7. Clear View
erdas imagine quick access toolbar

Main Menu

When Erdas Imagine is opened the menu bar positioned at any convenient place on the screen, contains, through a series of drop-down menus.

Total seven main menus are available, 6 are important menus, and one is Help menu.

  1. Home
  2. Manage Data
  3. Raster
  4. Vector
  5. Terrain
  6. Toolbox
  7. Help
File

The File Button is available to control various functions such as opening Views and projects, saving in multiple formats, as well as control of Preferences and Session Log.

Click the File Button to open the main menu dialogs. See below for details:

  • New– Create a New Window/View (Map View, 2D/3D View)
  • Open– Open types of File or Layer (Raster, Vector, AOI Layer)
  • Close– Close the Layer or View
  • Save– Save to Current File
  • Save As– Save a New File
  • Recent– Show the Recent Documents
  • Print– Print the current map composition
  • Session– Current IMAGINE session
  • Batch– Creating Batch jobs to process multiple files
  • Configuration– Configure IMAGINE functions
  • View– View and edit various text and image files
  • Preferences– The Preference Editor controls many IMAGINE parameters and defaults
  • Help– Information about ERDAS IMAGINE
  • Exit– End the current IMAGINE session
Home Menu

The Home tab, consisting of tool tab groups for information, editing, selection, and magnification of imagery.

Home tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Information– Contents, Metadata, Select, Inquire, Measure
  • Edit– Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Undo, Paste from Selected Object
  • Extent– Fit to Frame, Reset, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Relative Scale, Previous Extent, Scale
  • Window– Add Views, Link Views, Equalize Scales
  • View– Align North, Swipe, Clear View, Basemap, New Inset Viewer, Place Scale Bar, Background Colors, Display Style and Symbology, Properties, Place North Arrow
  • Scale and Angle– Zoom In and Zoom Out increment, Rotate clockwise and counter clockwise
  • Roam– Horizontal, Vertical, or User-Defined
Manage Data Menu

The Manage Data tab contains tools that are useful in general data preparation. You can also send data to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or save directly as a JPEG image.

Manage Data tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Catalog– Image Catalog managing raster image information and selecting files geographically
  • Conversion– Coordinate Calculator, Import and Export Data, GeoMedia, convert Pixels to ASCII and ASCII to Pixels, ASCII to X,Y point, GeoRaster Manager, Imagizer Data Prep
  • Vectorize– Raster to Shapefile and Annotation
  • Rasterize– Vector to Raster, and Annotation to Raster
  • Image– Edit Image Metadata, Pyramids & Statistics, Compare Images, Create New Image, Create ECW Transparency
  • NITF/NSIF– View NITF Metadata, Extract Shapefile and LAS File
  • Office Tools– Send to PowerPoint, Word, JPEG
Raster Menu

The Raster tab contains tools for enhancing raster data, mosaicking images, classifying data, change detection analysis, radar data analysis, modifying thematic data, and Fourier analysis.

Raster tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Resolution
  • Geometry
  • Classification
  • Change Detection
  • Radar Toolbox
  • Raster GIS
  • Scientific
Vector Menu

The Vector tab contains tools for working with shapefiles and other vector data. Use these tools to reproject, subset, and convert elevation data in shapefiles, and convert raster data to shapefiles.

Vector tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Manage
  • Shapefile
  • Raster to Vector
Terrain Menu

The Terrain tab contains tools for working with Terra Model layers.

Terrain tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Manage Terrain
  • Analysis
  • Point Cloud
Toolbox Menu

The Toolbox tab contains the Photogrammetry module (photogrammetric production tools), The tools contained in this tab are shown if the corresponding module has been purchased and installed.

Toolbox tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Common
    • IMAGINE Photogrammetry
    • Image Equalizer
    • Spatial Model Editor
    • Model Maker
    • Mosaic
    • AutoSync Workstation
    • Stereo Analyst
    • Maps Series
    • VirtualGIS
Help Menu

The Help tab, consisting of a search field where you can enter text to locate tools, modules.

Help tab is grouped into these categories:

  • Reference Library
  • Search Commands
  • Page
  • Results

These tools are the same as the corresponding tools on the Home tab.

Erdas Imagine Views

There are three types of Views for displaying and processing data:

  • 2D View – Displays raster, vector, and/or annotation data in a 2-dimensional View window
  • 3D View – Renders 3-dimensional DEMs, raster overlays, and vector and/or annotation feature layers
  • Map View – A Map view window designed for creating cartographic-quality maps and presentation graphics, usually output to a hard copy device
erdas imagine views

To open Views:

Click File button > New > 2D View/ 3D View/ Map View, or

Click Home tab > Add Views > Create New 2D View/ 3D View/ Map View

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