GLG410/598--Computers in Earth and Space Exploration

Weekly lecture notes

Lecture 13: Simple Image processing and getting images into ArcGIS

Goals

Learn about satellite imagery
Learn about on line processing of imagery
Use images in ArcMap
Learn about how geology, topography, and imagery tell us about the earth (applied to Arizona)

Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery are those images gathered from a satellite platform of the earth.

These images come from a lecture in my Geomorphology course: http://arrowsmith362.asu.edu/Lectures/Lecture7/

We will work with ASTER imagery for this class: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/

Here is an explanation of the different bands in the ASTER data product: http://agassiz.la.asu.edu/docs/aster-white-paper.html

Online processing of imagery

This Powerpoint file explains the on line processing system that we developed: Explanation_of_IMSservlet.ppt.

Here is our site: http://aspen.asu.edu/website/Geoinformatics/viewer.htm

This tutorial explains how to use it: Tutorial-ASTER_data.htm

GLG410/598 Computers in Earth and Space Exploration

Last modified: March 16, 2009