The lab exercises linked below were developed by AmericaView members using ERDAS IMAGINE version 10 and eCognition version 8. They are offered freely and 'as is' for the use of educators and can be adapted to meet educational purposes. AmericaView does not endorse any specific software and has no official ties to ERDAS or eCognition or any of their affiliates. The exercises were developed for undergraduate and graduate students and focus on specific geoprocessing techniques and geographic regions but can be adapted to support educational needs at a variety of levels and using other types of data, depending on the lab and associated processing technique(s). They all come with public domain datasets, but data of other areas can be downloaded and substituted for those provided. Our primary purpose is to help our partners and others who are teaching or would like to teach remote sensing science.
We would gladly welcome feedback and suggestions for making these resources more useful. Please let us know what you think (email John McGee or Rick Landenberger).
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 1: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 2: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 3: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 4: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 5: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 6: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10. Other remote sensing software can also be used.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 7: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Exercise 8: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Advanced
Topic: Exercise 9: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Advanced
Topic: Exercise 10: Digital Image Processing
Software: eCognition ver. 8.
Level: Advanced
Topic: Exercise 11: Digital Image Processing (extra credit!)
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Introductory
Topic: Introduction to ERDAS Imagine
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Introductory
Topic: Lab 1 - Digital Image Processing: Loading remote sensing data
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Data: There are two parts to this exercise. To complete both parts, you will need to download both
Lab 1, Part 1 (69 MB) and
Lab 1, Part 2 (142 MB).
Level: Introductory / Intermediate
Topic: Lab 2 - Virtual GIS
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Lab 3: Digital Image Processing
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver.10.
Level: Introductory / Intermediate
Topic: Lab 4: Displaying Images
Software: Erdas Imagine ver. 10.
Data: Landsat, 1m aerial photography, 10 m satellite image product, 15 m satellite image product, 30 m satellite image product:
Download here (13 MB).
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topic: Lab 5: Supervised Classification by the Parallelepiped Method
Software: ERDAS Imaging ver.10.
Level: Advanced
Topic: Lab 6: Profiles of DEM's and Change Detection by Using the DEM's
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.
Level: Advanced
Topic: Lab 7 - Radar Image and Edge Enhancement
Software: ERDAS Imagine ver. 10.