Volume 26 • No 01 • 2003
ISSN 0742-468X • Since 1978
On-line Since 2000
Working with ArcView Image Analysis
The web changed the way we do business is so many ways it is hard to keep track. If it is even remotely associated with information, images, music, or purchasing we expect it to be online. Software companies found the net to be their friend as well. Everything from having an electronic magazine to free downloads makes their marketing efforts a bit easier. But what if you could train people to use your products without actually having to get them to travel to your location? That is another area in which the web shines.
ESRI learned how to take advantage of the Web just about the time the rest of the world knew what a dot com was. Take their Virtual Campus. The company claims “with more than 169,000 members and dozens of courses to choose from, ESRI Virtual Campus is a recognized leader in online GIS training.”
ArcView Image Analysis
So just how do you get users to learn about your products without the expense of a training seminar? You hold the course online. Take the recently released Arview Image Analysis. Before you could get the shrink wrap off the software box (or did you download it?), ESRI announced Working with ArcView Image Analysis. The course gives ArcView software users the opportunity to expand their abilities using the ArcView Image Analysis extension.
According to ESRI’s Nikki Snowhite, “This six-module course (the first module is free) provides an overview of image and remote sensing science concepts and introduces the six basic functional areas of ArcView Image Analysis software. Participants learn how to enhance images using a variety of tools, align features on an image with features on a map, classify image pixels, find areas with similar characteristics, and identify areas that have changed over time. In addition, participants learn to extract features from an image, create a mosaic of multiple images, and analyze the health or type of vegetation in an image by creating a ’greenness map.’ The final learning module includes a project that applies these concepts to a real-world situation.”
To enroll in the course or for a complete course description, visit ESRI Virtual Campus at http://campus.esri.com or call 1 800 447 9778 in the United States. For further information outside the United States, please contact your local distributor; see www.esri.com/international for a current distributor list.
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