Image Processing for IDRISI Course Summary - Teachers
Learning Objectives
By the end of these units your students will: -
- be proficient in the use of Idrisi Kilimanjaro
- understand and be able to undertake geometric referencing of images
- understand and be able to display image composites for known purposes
- know about the potential of any procedures for image processing in a range of application areas
Teaching Resources
The below teaching resources can be downloaded and used in a classroom environment. If you would like to adapt any of these materials then please contact the author of the course to seek permission to do so.
Download the Image Processing for IDRISI Manual PDF (654 KB)
IDRISI Course Data Download.zip (225 MB)Please note that the IDRISI Kilimanjaro data will decompress to 505 MB
If your institution does not have IDRISI Kilimanjaro please visit the software guidance pages for details of how this can be obtained.
| View Unit | Duration |
Data | Unit Map |
| Unit 1. Information Extraction | 1 hour |
NOAA-9 AVHRR Channel 2 (Near Infra-Red) image of southern Britain; 30 June 1984. Filename: AVHRR_SOUTHERNBRITAIN.RST |
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| Unit 2. Spectral Mapping | 1 hour |
Landsat Thematic Mapper georeferenced reflectance image acquired 1st May 1986. Filename: KINGSTON_JAMAICA_TM1.RST, KINGSTON_JAMAICA_TM_6.RST |
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| Unit 3. Georeferencing | 1.5 hour |
Landsat 7 image, path 204, row 23 which includes Liverpool and Manchester. Filename: LANDSAT7_20423_1.RST, LANDSAT7_20423_6.RST |
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| Unit 4. Structural Mapping | 1 hour |
Georeferenced ERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar data; Radarsat multitemporal image. Filenames: KINGSTON_ERS1.RST, SOUFRIERE04031996.RST, SOUFRIERE28031996.RST, SOUFRIERE15051996.RST |
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| Unit 5. Vegetation Mapping | 1 hour |
Landsat Thematic Mapper data and NOAA AVHRR data Filenames: LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER_3.RST, LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER_4.RST, ENGLAND_AVHRR1.RST, ENGLAND_AVHRR2.RST |
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| Unit 6. Land Cover Classification | 1 hour |
Geometrically corrected Landsat Thematic Mapper reflectance subscene Filename: LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER_1.RST, LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER_7.RST |
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| Unit 7. Meteorology | 1 hour |
NOAA AVHRR data Filenames: JAMAICA_AVHRR1.RST, AMAICA_AVHRR4.RST, GULF_AVHRR1.RST, GULF_AVHRR4.RST |
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| Unit 8. Coastal Mapping | 1 hour |
Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper image of the Blakeney Point area, Norfolk, UK (28/05/1989), Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper pan-sharpened image of Blakeney Point 19/02/2000. Filenames: BLAKENEY_LANDSAT7_1.RST, BLAKENEY_LANDSAT7_3.RST, BLAKENEY_1880.TIF, BLAKENEY_1927.TIF, BLAKENEY_1974.TIF, BLAKENEY_OCT04_PANORAMA.JPG |
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| Unit 9. Landslide Mapping | 1 hour |
GIS data filenames: ABOVE_RAINFALL.RST, ABOVE_CULTURAL.RST, ABOVE_CULTURAL.VCT |
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| Unit 10. Mineral Exploration | 1 hour |
Thematic Mapper visible, near and short-wave infrared reflective bands, acquired 23rd June 1985. Filename: PERU_1.RST, PERU_6.RST |
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Other Course Suggestions
Your students may be interested in working through the Object Oriented Classification course after successful completion of this course.
