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Table of Contents
1. Geo-Referencing of Toposheet 04-09
2. Reprojection of data 10-12
3. Importing of NRSC Satellite data 13-15
4. Geo-Referencing of Panchromatic data 16-21
5. Image Subsetting 22-24
6. Resolution Merge 25-37
7. Stitching of Images 28-32
8. DEM Generation 33-38
9. Virtual GIS 39-60
10. Change Detection 61-63
11. Classification 64-67
12. Vectorization 68-79
13. Map Composition & Symbol Creation 80-88
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Erdas Imagine Ribbon Window Terminology
Mouse Conventions
LMB Left Mouse Button
RMB Right Mouse Button MMB Middle Mouse Button
Quick Launch
Ribbon Menu
Ribbon Tool Bar
2D View
Contents
ShoeBox
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Geo-Referencing of Topo-sheets
Objective: To Geo-Reference scanned raster SOI surveyed toposheet data. 1. Open Raster toposheet data into viewer by using RMB click on the
screen.
2. New dialog box appears to Select Layer to Add then select 57f2.tiff
file, click OK to open.
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3. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Multispectral menu to get respective toolbar.
4. Click on Transform & Orthocorrect toolbar submenu control points
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to provide Geometric model.
5. Select Polynomial as on Set Geometric Model on Model list and click OK.
6. GCP Tool Reference Setup dialog box appears to collect Geographical
reference point source, select the option Keyboard Only for toposheet
map then click OK.
7. Click on Reference Map Information click on Set to get the Projection
chooser dialog box.
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8. On Projection Chooser window click on the Custom Tab and set
projection parameter as –
Projection Type Geographic Lat/Lon
Spheroid Name Everest 1956
Datum Name Indian (India, Nepal)
then click OK.
9. Polynomial Model Properties dialog box appears, click Close to
proceed.
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Note: There are 16 reference points in a Topo sheet the lat/lon values of
all these points are shown on the Topo sheet. 10. Click Create GCP icon on Multipoint Geometric Correction tool bar
.Move the mouse cursor on the viewer, cursor will turn as „+’ like
cross sign on the viewer then take cursor to the top left corner of the
grid on the toposheet and click LMB button. GCP point gets placed at
corner of toposheet map grid then GCP point input values comes as in
GCP Tool (X input and Y input).
11. For same GCP point input value for X Ref 77 and Y Ref 14 45(to input
values use space bar eg. to enter 14 45‟, type 14 press space bar then
type 45).
12. Follow the same above step to create second and third point on toposheet on other grid corner.
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13. As after third point onwards point reference values need to provide as
input for column Xref. and Yref. then software starts point prediction automatically on the toposheet, if it is required adjust the same GCP point to the exact location.
14. Follow the same step for remaining another 12 GCP points on the
toposheet grid.
15. As after placing GCP points, save the points by clicking file/save input
and save reference in multipoint geometric correction window.
16. Create a folder name ERDASOUT on your local drive where output data
a be saved. Click on Multipoint Geometric correction tool display
resampling image dialog, Resample dialog box provide TOPO-GEO as output name on ERDASOUT directory to take resample output and
make sure to ignore zero stats.
17. As after removing toposheet non-georefrenced image from contents by
clicking LMB remove layer then open the resampled output topo-geo image in same viewer.
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Reprojection of Data
1. On erdas imagine software ribbon click on Multispectral menu to get respective toolbar.
2. Click on Transform & Orthocorrect toolbar submenu Reproject to
reproject the georefrenced geographic toposheet into polyconic projection.
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3. Reproject Images dialog box appears to change projection system as
Polyconic.
4. On Projection Chooser window click on custom tab to provide input under as parameter-
Projection Type Polyconic
Spheriod Name Everest 1956
Datum Name Indian (India, Nepal)
Longitude of central meridian
77 07 30
Latitude of origin of
projection
14 37 30
then click on Save button and save projection as polyconic-india in
category polyconic click OK. Save the custom projection as in Polyconic new category and use the same projection from standard projection tab to select polyconic-india then click ok.
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a. On Reproject Images dialog box provide output name
TOPO_POLY, ignore zero stats and click OK.
b. When the process is over. Click Close on the progress bar.
5. Same viewer removes other layers from contents box by RMB click
remove layer.
6. Open the resampled output file (topo-poly.img) in a viewer to verify
the output file. On viewer menu click on utility/inquiry cursor, place
the cross hair to the know location (where longitude and latitude values
are printed on Toposheet). Select top left corner list box option from
map to lat./long., so for known values on toposheet grid this software
interface values has to be very close to each other values.
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Importing of NRSC Satellite Data
The ERDAS IMAGINE Import function allows importing a wide variety of data
types to use with ERDAS IMAGINE and other Software. The Export function lets
convert image (ERDAS IMAGINE .img file format) files into other several data
formats.
Objective: To Import IRS 1C/1D Satellite Data (Super Structured Format).
1. On erdas imagine software ribbon click on Manage menu, click on tool
bar Import Data to get import dialog box.
2. Choose the format by using drop down list, select IRS-1C/1D(Super
Structured format) and browse Input File
pan/product1/imagery.pan. in the Output file enter pan.img and
click OK.
3. New Information Import IRS-Data in Super Structured Format
dialog box, which provides all the details about satellite data.
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4. Click Import Options button to get Import Options dialog box, click
to check on Ignore Zero in Output Stats then click OK on dialog
box.
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5. Click OK to get the progress bar, after completion of 100 Percent on
Progress bar click DONE and open the imported pan image in the viewer
after removing all the layers.
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Geo-Referencing Panchromatic Data
Objective: To Geo-Refrence imported pan Image with the reference of topo-
poly georefrenced data.
1. On erdas imagine software ribbon click on Panchromatic menu to get respective toolbar.
2. Click on Transform & Orthocorrect toolbar control points to provide Geometric model.
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3. Select Polynomial as on Set Geometric Model on Model list and click OK.
4. On GCP Tool Reference Setup, select Image layer (new viewer)
and click ok.
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5. Dialog box appears to choose the reference image layer. Select topo-poly.img and click OK. (This will be acting as reference image).
Reference map information dialog box appears and click OK.
6. As after providing three GCPs point, automatically prediction of point
gets starts. So place a point in one image, same GCP point will get
placed in another image automatically. If it is required adjust the same
point to identified correct location.
7. Collect sufficient number of GCP points and save it. Click GCP Tool menu
file/save input and file/save reference for the GCP points.
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8. Total RMS error can be checked by point respective GCP Tool Column.
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9. Click on Multipoint Geometric correction tool display resampling
image dialog, Resample dialog box provide Pan-poly as output name
on ERDASOUT directory to take resample output and make sure to
ignore zero stats.
a. To check the correctness of output image with referenced
toposheet, on Erdas Imagine ribbon quick launch panel and open
output image pan_poly.img.
b. To overlay corrected topsheet, in same viewer select quick launch
panel open topo-poly click on raster options tab to disable
clear display and click OK.
c. Rectified toposheet will get overlaid on rectified image. by using
RMB click on the same viewer select Swipe option .
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d. Viewer swipe dialog box appears use mouse to move Viewer
Swipe nudger between 0 – 100,as the toposheet will move on
rectified image. so features of toposheet has to match with
features of image.
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Image Subsetting
Objective: To clip image layer by using Area of Interest (AOI) layer.
1. Remove all by using layer by using ribbon quick launch then Open pan_Poly.img in a viewer then click on Drawing menu and select Insert Geometry Rectangle button from displayed toolbar to create rectangle
AOI. So able to create Area of Interest by digitizing the rectangle on the image.
2. To subset image click on ribbon menu RASTER toolbar to get respective
toolbar.
3. Click on subset & chip tool bar sub menu Create subset Image to open subset dialog box.
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4. In Subset dialog box make sure input as pan_poly.img and output box
type pan_sub.img. Check to Ignore Zero in Output Stats and Select
AOI Button in the subset dialog box to provide subset coordinate
information.
5. In choose AOI dialog box, select viewer radio button. Click OK in
choose AOI dialog box then OK in Subset dialog box.
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6. When process get over click on close button on process list and check
the subset layer by opening image in viewer by using quick launch open.
7. Save the AOI layer by RMB click on content aoi layer Save layer as,
specify the layer name as study.aoi and click OK for future use.
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Resolution Merge Objective: To Generate Pan Sharp Image by using MSS and Pan Geo-
corrected image.
1. As after removing all layer from ribbon quick launch Clear View open
Liss-output image in the viewer to subset up to same data extent by using study.aoi layer.
2. Click on ribbon Raster menu to get respective toolbar.
3. Click on Geometry subset & chip toolbar create subset image sub tool to open Subset dialog box.
4. Make sure input image is Liss-output and browse local directory to type output name Liss-sub, Check to Ignore Zero in Output Stats.
5. Select AOI Button in the subset dialog box, At new choose AOI dialog box, select AOI radio button to browse study.aoi file and Click OK in choose AOI dialog box then OK in Subset dialog box.
6. The Progress Bar appears, after 100% job status appears click Close
button.
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Resolution Merge
1. Click on ribbon menu Raster menu resolution pan sharpen tool
Resolution Merge to get resolution merge dialog box, browse to provide input sharp image as Pan-sub and MSS image as Liss-sub and browse to provide output name in local same directory Pansharp.
7. Select method as Principal Component radio button under Method, Cubic Convolution radio button under Resampling Techniques,
Ignore zero in Stats check box under Output Options and type 3,2,1 in Select Layers the click OK to proceed.
8. Progress Bar comes up, which shows the status of the job, click OK
after completion. 9. Open three 2d Views from Home menu window toolbar Addviews
subtool bar create new 2d views.
10. Open Pansharp image in first 2d viewer, in second pan_sub.img, and liss_sub image in third individual viewer.
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11. Set the scale to 12500 by selecting Home menu Extent toolbar in each
viewer.
12. To Geolink all three viewers, on Home menu window tool bar Link All
Views select Link All Views to link all viewers.
13. By visualizing all images, output Pansharp image have sharp color
multi spectral resolution.
Note: Pansharp image have both spectral information and spatial
information in merged data.
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Stitching of Images
Objective: Seamless stitching of three Different images.
In this exercise, different time period satellite LANDSAT MSS and TM
overlapping images get seamless Mosaic with each others. The three input files to be mosaicked as: wasia1_mss.img, wasia2_mss.img, and wasia3_tm.img.
1. Click on Raster menu to get respective toolbar.
2. Click on Geometry tool bar Mosaic sub tool Mosaic pro then new window comes up as Mosaic pro.
3. In the Mosaic Pro Toolbar, click on the Add Images icon, then Add Images for Mosaic dialog gets opens.
4. In the Add Images for Mosaicking under File tab, select
Wasia1_mss.img, then select “Image Area Options” tab and click Compute Active Area radio button to enable it then click OK. The file wasia1_mss.img displays as image number 1 in the canvas of the Mosaic Tool viewer.
5. Repeat steps (2. and 3. adding wasia2_mss.img and wasia3_tm.img to the canvas of the Mosaic Tool viewer.
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6. When the entire three images get added, the Mosaic Pro should look like
the following:
7. On image list click on column visible to make images visible to visualize
their extent.
8. To Cutline Generation Options dialog box and select Geometry-based Cutline Generation option then click OK to proceed. Images shown with new extent after generation cutline.
Image List
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9. Click the „display color correction options dialog‟ icon in the Mosaic Tool viewer.
10. „Color Correction‟ dialog gets appears.
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11. Select „Use Histogram matching‟ check box then Click OK in the „Color Correction‟ to use function.
12. Click on ‟Set Overlap Function‟ icon
13. The Set Overlap Function dialog opens to smoothing and Feathering function distance 10 to apply function at this distance.
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14. In the Mosaic Tool Viewer, Select Process/Run Mosaic Output File Name dialog opens.
15. In the Run Mosaic dialog under File tab, input name as wasia_mosaic
in the local directory then press Enter key button. Click the Output
Options tab, enable the Stats Ignore Value: 0 checkbox, then click OK. 16. The job status dialog displays, showing the progress of the function, click
close when the job status dialog reads that the function is 100% complete. 17. Open the stitched image in viewer to visualize it.
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DEM Generation
Objective: Digital Elevation Model generation from Arc Info line contour file.
1. Open arcinfo line contour file in 2d view to visualize layer and know height value in non spatial attribute data column.
2. To know attribute data click on Tool ribbon menu view toolbar Show
Attributes.
3. Attribute editor (docable) will get opened, scroll column wise to find the Z
value Height (meter) column. Select any vector polyline, so it also gets
highlighted in attribute row.
4. Click on Terrain ribbon menu terrain preparation toolbar surfacing tool to
open 3D surfacing dialog box.
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5. Select File/Read or Read New Data icon Input Data dialog box
appears.
6. Use Point Data radio button, Under Source File Type select Line Coverage. Under Source File Name select 54L16cont and Under Attribute for Z select IGDS-ZVALUE as height value column, then click
OK.
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7. Click OK on progress bar, Values for X, Y and Z are populated in
3D Surfacing dialog box.
8. Click Surface/Surfacing… or Click on Perform Surfacing icon.
9. Surfacing dialog box will appear give Output file(*.img) name
dem.img use Surfacing Method is set to Linear Rubber Sheeting method.
10. Input Cell Size X as 10 and Cell Size Y as 10, BackGround are set to zero by default and enable Ignore Zero in Output Stats and Output Data Type is set to Float Single.
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11. Click on OK button, progress bar will show the status of DEM
generation, after completion of process click OK. 12. To view the DEM, on same 2d View and Open Raster layer
dem.img.
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Visualizing DEM in 3D
13. Click on Terrain ribbon menu terrain preparation toolbar Analysis
image drape to open Image Drape window.
14. Image Drape window opens to provide DEM.img as input, which
displays DEM in 3D and click Go to Original Position icon in Image
Drape window.
15. DEM is fitted in Image Drape window, a link formed in Normal
viewer. Use cursor to change the eye and Target round cross hair, which also updates in Image Drape window.
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16. Close all windows.
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VirtualGIS
Objective: Visualization of Image dataset as in 3d View.
Imagine Virtual GIS is a 3D visualization tool. It allows rendering of large Data sets with real time performance. Multiple layers of raster, annotation and
vector data can be viewed and queried within an environment. Displaying Imagery
1. Open DEM file DEMmergefile_sub.img in 2d view.
2. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Home menu to get respective toolbar.
3. Click on Window toolbar submenu AddViews to Create New 3D View.
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4. Drag 2dview DEMmergefile_sub.img file in to 3dview for 3d visualization of digital elevation model image.
5. On 2d view open natural color XS_truecolor_sub.img file and then drag the same image into 3dview for visualization.
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6. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Scene menu to get respective toolbar.
7. Click on Scene toolbar submenu Scene Properties. 8. By using Scene Properties dialog box DEM tab increase the Exaggeration
by 2 and Viewing Range also.
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9. Click on Scene Properties Background tab and change the Background
Type to Image and browse Image file Name SKY.img and click to apply to get the changes in 3d view.
Navigating VirtualGIS 10. To render the image in 3dview, Virtual GIS has different modes of
navigation that can be used by using control keywords are as-
Control Keyword
Position - [P] Target - [T] Dashboard - [D]
Selection - [S] Bird Eye - [B] Terrain
Navigation on image dataset can control smoothly by using mouse button.
Position[P]- Allow to change pitch and azimuth.
Use LMB to change viewing direction and pan around a scene. Use MMB to move towards or away from the position.
Target[T]- Allow to choose a target by double clicking on the terrain. Use LMB to rotate around the target. Use MMB to move towards or away from the target.
Dashboard[B]- Provides an interface for navigating on scene.
The position, pitch and azimuth are controlled using buttons that
control flight and viewing angle.
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Selection[S]- Allows query and selection on the scene information.
BirdEye[B]- Allows the navigation like a Bird fly on the scene.
Terrain – Allows to move along the ground on the image datasets.
11. Click on Application Menu Save As Project As then new dialog box Save
VirtualGIS Project appears. Enter the VGIS.vwp then click ok.
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12. Click on Application Menu Save As Session then new dialog box Save As
appears to enter the VGIS.ixs then click ok.
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Water Fill Analysis
13. To do Water fill analysis click on Application Menu New on create new
window 3D View Water Layer.
14. New dialog box appear Create Water Layer then enter the layer name as
water.fld and click OK and Water Menu get added on Erdas ribbon menu.
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15. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Water menu to get respective toolbar. Click on Fill Entire Scene and use Elevation Tool to know the water elevation.
16. To store water by editing DEM file, Use ribbon Home menu to add new 2d
view. 17. Open Demmerge_sub.img file in same 2d view by clicking Application
Menu Open Raster Layer.
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18. Use ribbon Drawing menu Algorithm sub menu Polygon tool to create
aoi layer to demarcate boundary between two highly terrain(showing white color for higher elevation in the image).
19. After creating aoi file on the DEM image, click on the DEM to get ribbon Panchromatic menu for the image.
20. Click on ribbon Panchromatic menu Edit submenu Fill tool to get Area Fill dialog box.
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21. Select the Aoi file from 2d view and in Area Fill dialog box use Function
as Constant and Fill With value 1300 then click Apply.
22. Click ok to clear off Attention dialog box and Close the Area Fill dialog
box to dismiss. 23. Save the layer edit permanently to change the DEM pixel values by clicking
Yes on Attention Dialog box.
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24. To get the change reflected in 3d view, Click on 2d view then
Application Menu open session to open vgis.ixs session file.
25. Click on Application Menu New on create new window 3D View Water
Layer.
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26. New dialog box appear Create Water Layer then enter the layer name as
water.fld and click OK and Water Menu get added on Erdas ribbon menu.
27. By using Contents on 3D View# 1 select Water.fld feature layer then on
ribbon Water menu get highlight.
28. Click on ribbon Water menu and click on Water submenu nuddger then
Water Property dialog box appears.
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29. On Water Property Dialog box eight Neighborhood buttons then click on
Select Point at the back of elevated terrain then change Fill Elevation
Height to 1250, click Apply.
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30. Water get fill at the back of elevated DEM region.
31. To know the volume of water fill click on Water menu Water submenu Fill
Attributes tool.
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Overlay Vector Data
32. By using Application Menu open Vector Layer select street arc coverage
file.
33. Again click Application Menu open Vector Layer then Select Layer To Add
street arc coverage file.
34. To extend vertically click on Vector option tab, pop list Extend Vertically
35. Next Polygon Height Attribute by using popup Height column from vector
attribute table.
36. Click ok to apply and dismiss the dialog box.
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Create Annotation Layer
37. Click on 2d view, use Application Menu New then 2dView Annotation Layer.
38. Annotation layer dialog box opens, in a directory enter annot.ovr and press
OK button.
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39. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Drawing menu to get respective toolbar. Click on Algorithm Annotation Tool to write annotation text.
40. Now place cursor on 2d view. The cursor becomes an I-beam, indicating to
place text. Click on the 2d view image then Annotation Text dialog box
appears. 41. Use keyboard to enter text string and click ok.
42. On 2d view and double click to change the property type as MAP instead of
Paper then apply and save the layer from contents.
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43. Drag the 2dview upper annotation layers onto 3d view layers and then
render map by using navigation control on 3d view.
44. Click on Application Menu Save Project then new dialog box Save
VirtualGIS Project appears. Enter the VGIS.vwp then click ok.
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Creation of Flight Path
45. On Erdas Imagine software ribbon click on Scene menu to get respective toolbar. Click on Navigation and use Flight Path Editor to open Flight Path Editor dialog box.
46. Click on Flight path Editor Utility Menu Digitize Flight Path then select 2d
view by LMB click then cursor turns into cross hair to start digitization of
flight path.
47. Move the cross hair around the scene, clicking at points where the flight to
change direction. A line from point to point will be visible in the 2d view.
48. End the flight path digitization by double clicking LMB. The points of the
flight path display in Flight Path Editor.
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49. To set focal point, select the few top rows and click on Flight Path Editor
Edit menu set focal point then double click at the point where while on the
move to visualize the area.
50. Again redo the above steps to set focal point for another half of the path
then apply the changes by clicking on apply icon. (By using red button
in tool menu)
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51. Now click the Play icon in the Flight Path Editor toolbar. It will begin to
fly along the path in VirtualGIS 3d View.
52. Click the Stop icon in the Flight Path Editor toolbar to halt flight.
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53. Dock the 3d view window to visualize in full view on the screen.
54. Select File Save as from Flight Path Editor menu bar then Save Flight Path
dialog box appears.
55. Enter path name as flight path and the click ok to save.
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Change Detection
Objective: Identify and measure the changes between time series data sets.
1. Click on Raster ribbon menu change detection zonal change image
difference drape toolbar to open change detection dialog box.
2. Open two 2d view by clicking on ribbon Home menu window toolbar Add views create new 2d view.
3. In one view open atl_spotp_87.img and in another view open atl_spotp_92.img.
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4. Input atl_spotp_87.img as Before Image and atl_spotp_92.img as After Image.
5. Input spot_diff.img as the Image Difference File and spot_high.img
as the Highlight Change File. 6. In the Highlight Changes, see that As Percent radio button selected. 7. Change the Increases more than percent value to 20, and change
Decrease more than to 20. Click OK progress bar appears click OK to complete the process.
8. Add more 2d views, in all four Viewers, display atl_spotp_87.img,
atl_spotp_92.img, difference.img and highlight.img respectively.
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9. In the viewer which has highlight.img shows only red and green color to highlight the changes, and then close all the Views.
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Classification Objective: To classify image and determine land cover.
1. Display liss_sub.img image in a 2d view, click on Raster ribbon menu classification toolbar unsupervised classification.
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2. Select liss_sub.img under Input Raster File. Give output layer name
liss_class.img under Output File. 3. Type 8 in Number of Classes, Input 12 in Maximum Iterations and
0.950 in Convergence Threshold, then click OK. Progress Bar comes
up. Once it gets completed then clicks close.
4. Display liss_class.img in a new View, by adding 2d view from home ribbon menu window add views tool bar.
5. Select Raster/Attributes in the viewer menu bar.
6. Raster Attributes Editor which shows specified number of class and other attribute.
Classes created as:
Unclassified Class1 Class2
Class3 Class4 Class5
Class6
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Class7 Class8
Colors as: Gray levels
7. LMB in box under Color column and select the blue color. 8. LMB in box under Class Names and type Water. 9. Proceed for other classes to provide class name.
10. To add AREA column, click on Table ribbon menu column Add Area and Add Area Column dialog box opens.
11. Select Hectares in Units and type Area in Name field then click OK. Area Column gets added in Attribute Editor.
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Thematic Classified image
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Vectorization
Objective: Creating of GIS vector layers, editing and query making on it.
1. Open Erdas Imagine view and Open Raster Layer topo_poly.img
to create new vector layer click on application menu new 2d view vector layer.
2. Create a new vector layer dialog box get appears.
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3. Select Shape file(*.shp) in File of type, Type Roads in File name and
Click OK. New Shape file Type Option dialog box get opens.
4. Select Arc Shape under Select Shapefile Layer Option then click OK.
5. Vector roads.shp layer is created on image and to use vector tool for Vectorization click on ribbon drawing menu toolbar insert geometry polyline.
Adding Attributes to Existing Table
1. Click on ribbon Table menu toolbar query column properties. New column attributes dialog box appears new button is used to create new column.
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2. Type the value in same column and save layer then remove layer.
Editing the Existing Vector Layer
1. Open a 2d View, Open pan_poly.img then open road shape vector
layer on it.
2. To make layer editable, click on drawing menu modify toolbar Enable Editing.
3. By using Drawing Menu insert geometry tool creation and editing of
features can be done.
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Creating Attribute based Symbology
Every feature is identified in the vector layer by the attributes assigned to it.Ex: in the roads.shp file, some roads are given road_id as 10, some
roads are given 20 and other roads are given as 30. By default every feature has been given default color and thickness, to use different color and symbology of road by using their attribute column
road_id value.
1. Open a new 2d view, Open road.shp Vector layer.
2. Click on drawing ribbon menu Symbology vector symbology toolbar. Symbology dialog box get open.
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3. Select Automatic/Unique Value in the Symbology dialog box.
4. In the pop up list select ROAD_ID (by using road attribute column new
styles are get generated). 5. Enable „Generate New Styles‟ check box and click OK.
6. In the Symbology dialog box, different color for different id put as row
wise in shape file.
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7. Also able to change color, thickness and line style for each line, use LMB
in the cell under Symbol column for Class Name 10 and select Other.
8. Line Style Chooser dialog box get appears.
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9. To change the width of the line, color by using Width text box change value to 2 and by Outer Color selector box choose red color for display then click ok.
10. Follow the steps from 7 to 9 change the color to red and thickness as 1
for Class Name 20. 11. Class Name 30 is railway line, change the style like rail track. 12. LMB in the cell under Symbol column for Class Name 30.
13. Select Other to get Line Style Chooser dialog box and select Custom tab.
14. In Outer Width type 1 and select color as black.
15. Click on Use Symbol check box, use Other/Symbol Chooser to change symbol.
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16. Select Misc, in the pop up list. Choose Vertical line. 17. Enable on Use Color check box. Choose color as Black.
18. Click OK.
19. Click OK on Line Style Chooser dialog box.
20. We observe different line styles in Symbology dialog box. 21. Polyline in the shape file has been changed to different line styles and
colors based on attributes.
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22. Click Close in the Symbology dialog box then attention message
box appears click Yes to save line style, color.
23. Appears Save Symbology As dialog box.
24. Go to the directory where shape file exists and type roads and press enter key (*.evs files should have the same name as the coverage name, and it has to stored in the same directory where coverage
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25. Click OK and close all windows. 26. Save symbology .evs file ensures to open shape file road with the
same style and symbology.
Vector Querying
To make vector query on attribute table click Table menu row toolbar criteria, then selection criteria dialog box appears.
1. To select a particular feature by writing a query (ex: all roads which has
road_id = 10).
2. RMB on any cell under Record column and select Criteria. The Selection Criteria window dialog box appears.
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3. LMB in text box under Criteria LMB on road_id Columns list, select „==‟ from Compares list and type 10
4. The expressions as $"road_id" == 10, click on Select button and click
Close. 5. All records with road_id = 10, which are available as in column attribute
get highlighted in the attribute editor and the corresponding features are
also get selected in the viewer.
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Map Composition
Objective: Creating map composition layout for printing.
Before adding Map Composition view Open the set of files which is to be composed in the view.
1. On erdas imagine software ribbon click on Home menu click on Add
view toolbar to add map view. 2. Click on Layout menu to select template from toolbar.
To adding the image on Map View, click on 2d view and drag into map view frame, so
the map comes on to the frame.
Create Grid
To create grid on to map frame click on Layout menu Insert Map Element Map grid
tool bar. Click on the image inside the map frame on which coordinate grid need to
place. Set Grid/Tick Info dialog opens.
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1. Click on Set Destination Projection to open Projection chooser dialog opens.
Choose the following coordinate parameters-
Projection Type Geographic Lat/Lon
Spheroid Name Everest 1956
Datum Name Indian (India, Nepal)
Click OK.
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2. In the Set Grid/Tick Info dialog select the „Deg Min Sec‟ option under
Map Units.
3. Specify the 5 minutes under Spacing.
4. Enable Use Full Grid. Click on Copy to Vertical, this option will apply the
same settings to the vertical axis
5. Click Apply and then click Close.
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To create Legend
Click on Layout Menu insert Map element Legend tool bar, then legend instruction
come up to select map frame by using LMB.
New dialog box for Legend Properties open up and provide name input then click ok.
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In Map View legend comes up with legend information.
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Add a Map Title
Click on drawing menu insert geometry add text element.
1. Move cursor to the top of map in the Map Composer viewer. The cursor becomes an I-beam, indicating like below cursor.
2. Click at top center where text need to place.
The Annotation Text dialog get opens.
3. Move pointer into the Enter Text String area in the Annotation Text
dialog. 4. Type IRS PAN DATA in the text field. 5. Click OK in the Annotation Text dialog to place the text in the map
composition. The text string is now displayed in the map composition.
Change Text Style
1. Click on the text string in the Map View to select it. 2. From the Drawing menu to edit font bar and style tool bar sub menu
object Style gallery.
Print the Map Composition
ERDAS IMAGINE supports many output devices, including electrostatic plotters,
continuous tone color printers, and PostScript devices. These steps illustrate how to print to a Plotter.
1. Click on the application menu from the ERDAS IMAGINE ribbon interface. Select Print then it opens save map view compostion comes up.
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2. Save the map view composition to save layout.
5. Click on the Print Destination popup list to select the printer.
6. Click on Change printer configuration to change the properties. 7. Printer properties dialog box appears.
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8. Select <<Edit Paper List>> from Size popup list.
9. Now in Paper Size dialog box, type 24 in width and 26 in height.(for map composition set property as 22 and 24 while creating file, so give input two inches more than existing map composition size).
10. Click OK in Paper Size dialog box then it get back to Printer Properties dialog box.
11. Paper size is set to 24X26 inches. Select Roll radio button.
12. Under Quality option select Normal (final). 13. Under Optimize option select for Images. 14. See that Orientation is set to Portrait.
15. Click OK in Printer properties, then come back to Print Map Composition dialog box.
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16. Now select Page Setup tab. See that Number of Panels are set to 1.
The Number of panels set to 1 means that the total map composition will be coming under single page.
17. Now Click OK in Printer Properties. These will directly sends the map
composition to the printer.