Image Analysis for Defense and Intelligence

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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 of 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 data used in the Image Analyst extension 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 of 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 of 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 Types
  • Help topic: Types of imagery data used in the Image Analyst extension—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation 

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

• 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 of Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery by Kass Green, Russell G. Co... by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
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  • Web Course: New Change Detection Learning Lab - Esri Community This web course provides examples of change detection workflows starting out with visual change detection and then going into quantifying change using different band combinations and indices.

• Change detection workflow:
  • Video: Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Change Detection Using Landsat Imagery This video demonstrates change detection using raster functions

• 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: EExtract 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.

• Describing image classification outputs
• 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.
  • GISGeography Article: Image Classification Techniques in Remote Sensing This article provides a discussion of different image classification techniques, as well as some background on the timeline of when they were developed.
  • 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 of Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery, Green, Kass, Congalton, Rus... by Kass Green, Russel G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman
  • Semiautomated Image Classification: p. 275-276

Lesson 6: Performing Pixel-based Unsupervised Classification

• Image classification workflows
  • Learn lesson: Calculate impervious surfaces from spectral imagery | Documentation
  • 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 | DocumentationThis 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.

Lesson 8: Motion Imagery Analysis

• Introduction to full motion video
  • Help topic:  Introduction to Full Motion Video—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
• Object tracking in motion imagery:  Object tracking in motion imagery—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
• Motion imagery geoprocessing functions:  Motion Imagery geoprocessing functions—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

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