Courses for Optical Data
1) Airborne Imaging (available soon)
Unit 1. Modern Aerial Photography
Unit 2. Historic Aerial Photography
2) Object Oriented Classification
All 8 units use Landsat 7 imagery see the units below:
| View Unit | Duration |
Data and Unit Teacher Guides |
Unit Map |
| Unit 1. Definiens Introduction | 1 hour |
Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales. |
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| Unit 2. Image Segmentation | 1.5 hours |
Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) |
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| Unit 3. Nearest Neighbour Classification | 1.5 hours | Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) |
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| Unit 4. Rule Based Classification | 1 hour | Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) |
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| Unit 5. Threshold Identification | 2 hours | Identification_of_Thresholds.tif |
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| Unit 6. Working with Levels | 1.5 hours | crowns_forest_image.tif |
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| Unit 7. Putting It All Together | 4 hours |
LandcoverClassificationExample_provided.dcp LandcoverClassificationExample.dcp |
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| Unit 8. Calculating Image Thresholds | 3 hours |
Landsat 7 image orthol7_20424xs240799.img (Row: 204 Path: 24 Date 24/07/1999) over South Wales |
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3) Image Processing for ENVI, ERDAS, PCI and Idrisi Kilimanjaro
All units apart from unit 4 use some kind of optical data for the exercises, units maps for Erdas are available to view below these will be the same for any of the four image processing courses, the same topics are covered. PCI and Idrisi Kilimanjaro course will be available soon.
| 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.IMG
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| Unit 2. Spectral Mapping | 1 hour |
Landsat Thematic Mapper georeferenced reflectance image acquired 1st May 1986. Filename: KINGSTON_JAMAICA_TM.IMG
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| Unit 3. Georeferencing | 1.5 hour |
Landsat 7 image, path 204, row 23 which includes Liverpool and Manchester. Filename: LANDSAT7_20423XS.IMG |
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| Unit 5. Vegetation Mapping | 1 hour |
Landsat Thematic Mapper data and NOAA AVHRR data Filenames: LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER.IMG and ENGLAND_AVHRR.PIX
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| Unit 6. Land Cover Classification | 1 hour |
Geometrically corrected Landsat Thematic Mapper reflectance subscene Filename: LANDSAT7_MANCHESTER.IMG (created module 3 georeferencing images)
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| Unit 7. Meteorology | 1 hour |
NOAA AVHRR data Filenames: JAMAVHRR.PIX; GULFAVH.PIX |
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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:
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| Unit 9. Landslide Mapping | 1 hour |
GIS data filenames:
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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.PIX
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