Image Analysis for Defense and Intelligence

MikeRhoades

Lesson 1:  Imagery in ArcGIS Pro

• Supported sensors
  • Help topic: List of supported sensors—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation 

• Satellite sensor raster types
  • Help topic: Satellite sensor raster types—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation 

• Rasters in ArcGIS Pro:  
  • Help topic: Essential Esri imagery and raster terms—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This help topic provides definitions of various raster terms, including raster datasets and mosaic datasets.
  • Chapter 5: Working with Imagery, from Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery - Kass Green - Google Books by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
  • Help topic: Overview of image management This help topic and the ones following describe essential image management techniques that are crucial to successful image analysis.
  • Web course: Managing Raster Data Using ArcGIS  This web course provides more background about mosaic datasets.

• Raster resolution:
  • Help topic: Types of imagery and raster data used in imagery and remote sensing This help topic provides a good introduction to spatial, spectral and temporal resolution of imagery, and  the various types of imagery
  • Chapter 3: Imagery Fundamentals, from Imagery and GIS – Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
    • Spectral Resolution: p. 51-54
    • Radiometric Resolution: p. 54-55
    • Spatial Resolution: p. 55-57
    • Viewing Angle: p. 57-61

• The electromagnetic spectrum:
  • The ArcGIS Imagery Book: New View. New Vision by Clint Brown & Christian Harder | Esri Press, by Clint Brown and Christian Harder, Chapter 4: Perceiving the Imperceptible
  • Chapter 3: Imagery Fundamentals, from Imagery and GIS – Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
    • The Electromagnetic spectrum: p. 31-32

• Imagery and remote sensing in ArcGIS Pro
  • Resource: ArcGIS Imagery Workflows.
  • Resource: The New Age of Imagery eBook. 
  • Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing by Thomas Humber & Jeff Liedtke | Esri Press.

 

Lesson 2 and 3:  Visualizing and analyzing oblique imagery

• Work with imagery in perspective mode
  • Help topic: Work with imagery in perspective mode—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation 
  • Help topic: Introduction to image space analysis—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

• Image mensuration
  • Help topic: Image mensuration—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation 

 

Lesson 4:  Change detection for operations

• Help topic: Change detection in ArcGIS Pro.
• What are raster functions?
  • Web course: Processing Raster Data Using ArcGIS Pro | Esri Training Web Course This web course teaches on-the-fly processing of rasters and imagery using raster functions and raster function chain.

• Types of raster functions
  • Help topic: Raster functions—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This help topic explains what raster functions are and defines local, global and custom functions.

• Types of change detection
  • Chapter 11: Change Analysis, from Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery by Kass Green, Russell G. Congalton, & Mark Tukman | Esri Press by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman

• Preprocessing rasters for change detection
  • Help topic: Resample function—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation The Resample function changes the raster pixel size using different resampling methods.
  • Help topic: Extract Bands function—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation The Extract band function allows to extract or reorder one or more bands from a multiband dataset.
  • Help topic: Clip function—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
  • Help topic: Apparent Reflectance function—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

 

Lesson 5:  Principles of image classification

• Defining image classification
  • Web course: Image Classification Using ArcGIS | Learning Plan This course introduces options for creating thematic classified rasters in ArcGIS.

• Image classification types and methods
  • Help topic: Overview of image classification—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  This help topic provides concise descriptions of commonly used image classification terms and tools, and discusses supervised vs. unsupervised classification and the object-based vs pixel-based approaches.
  • USGS website: National Land Cover Database | U.S. Geological Survey This website provides an overview and description of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and their landcover categories.
  • Video: ArcGIS Pro: Image Segmentation, Classification and Machine Learning
  • Help topic: List of ArcGIS Image Analyst raster functions—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This help topic provides a starting point for studying the classification functions, especially Classify.
  • Chapter 10: Image Classification, from Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery, Green, Kass, Congalton, Russell G., Tukman, Mark, eBook - Amazon.com by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
  • Semiautomated Image Classification: p. 275-276

• Deep learning
  • Video: Deep Learning in ArcGIS Pro Start to Finish.
  • Help topic: Deep learning using the ArcGIS Image Analyst extension.

 

Lesson 6: Performing pixel-based unsupervised classification

• Image classification workflows
  
  • Help topic: Introduction to the ArcGIS Pro Image Analyst extension—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This help topic provides a starting point for studying the Segmentation and Classification geoprocessing tools.

• Classifying a raster with the Image Classification Wizard
  • Help topic: Image Classification Wizard—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation. This help topic provides an overview of the Image Classification Wizard.

• Unsupervised image classification:  Iso Cluster Unsupervised Classification (Spatial Analyst)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

 

Lesson 7: Performing object-based supervised classification

• Segmentation
  • Help topic: Understanding segmentation and classification—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This is the main help topic to study to understand segmentation. It also includes references to the related scientific publications used for implementing the segment mean shift algorithm.
  • Help topic: Segmentation—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation This help topic provides an explanation of the different parameters in the segment mean shift tool.

• Video: Image classification accuracy assessment in ArcGIS Pro.

 

Lesson 8: Motion imagery analysis

• Introduction to (geospatial) full motion video
  • Help topic:  Introduction to geospatial video—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
• Object tracking in motion imagery:  Track objects in motion imagery—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
• Motion imagery geoprocessing functions:  Motion Imagery geoprocessing functions—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

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