| Brand |
Idrisi |
| Package Name |
Taiga |
| Date of Introduction |
1987 |
| Date of last update system and data |
2009 |
| - supported special hardware [1] |
GPS units |
| - user definable operations and extensions [2] |
scripts, macros, graphical programming, etc. |
| - supported image types [3] |
all listed under [3] |
| - other input data supported [4] |
all listed under [4] |
| - maximum number of bands |
64 |
| - ancillary data integration (Y (methods [5]) / N) |
Y (a priori probability) |
| - sub pixel classification (Y (methods [6]) / N) |
Y (linear spectral unmixing) |
| - training sample selection (Y (methods [7]) / N) |
Y (individual pixels, polygon, masks) |
| - accuracy assessment (Y (methods [8]) / N) |
Y (error matrix, kappa-coefficient) |
| - unsupervised classification (Y (methods [9]) / N) |
Y (cluster, isodata, K means, unsupervised hyperspectral classifier |
| - supervised classification (Y (methods [10]) / N) |
Y (all listed under [10] + [a]) |
| - vegetation index (Y/N) |
Y |
| - principal component analysis (Y/N) |
Y |
| - line (e.g. road) extraction (Y (methods [11]) / N) |
N |
| - region growing segmentation (Y/N) |
Y (watershed based) |
| - multiresolution image segmentation (Y/N) |
N |
| - multiscale approach (Y/N) |
Y |
| - generalisation (Y (methods [12]) / N) |
N |
| - transformations (Y (methods [14]) / N) |
project, local affine |
| - cartographic projections (Y (methods [15]) / N) |
UTM, LATLONG, State Plane, etc… |
| - ortho-image generation using DEM (Y/N) |
N |
| - radiometric corrections (Y (methods [18]) / N) |
Y (destripe, dn to radiance, atmospheric correction) |
| - spatial convolutions (Y (methods [19]) / N) |
Y (smoothing, pansharpening, user definable filters (max. kernel size: 255 x 255)) |
| - image transforms (Y (methods [20]) / N) |
Y ([i]) |
| - morphological operations (Y (methods [21]) / N) |
N |
| - filtering of radar-imagery (Y (methods [22]) / N) |
Y (Fourier, PCA) |
| - manual removal / addition of points, lines, polygons (Y/N) |
Y |
| - addition of text and symbols (Y/N) |
Y |
| - overlay with map data (Y/N) |
Y |
| - training facilities (Y (list duration) /N) |
Y |
| - main users (max. 5) |
REDD modelers, Earth systems modelers, remote sensing experts, ecologists, and environmental modelers |
| - main applications (max. 5) |
REDD carbon offset, time series analysis, ecological modeling, landuse change |
| - distinguishable features (max. 20 words) [23] |
integration of sofisticated raster analysis with robust remote sensing capabilities |
