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ENVI 4.5 Product Updates
ENVI 4.5 Value Proposition
• ArcGIS Interoperability: Geodatabase and
ArcMap access
• Fx enhancements: Improved end-to-end
workflow
• New analytical spectral tools: SID and ICA
are powerful tools for image scientist
• Continued data format support: Worldview,
NITF and TFRD updates
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ENVI and ArcGIS Interoperability
•ENVI users will be able to:
•Access and read from ArcGIS
Geodatabases
•Write out to geodatabases
•Launch ArcMap and create
map compositions directly
from ENVI
•Supports enterprise,
personal, and file
Geodatabase types
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New Sensor and Data Support
• WorldView-1 data in
GeoTIFF, NITF, and
Stereo Pair.
• NITF for 32- and 64bit Linux systems
• Full TFRD support in
ENVI Zoom
• Remote Data Access
in ENVI (OGC/JPIP),
not just in FX
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New Feature Extraction Functionality
• Programmatic access to Fx provides batch mode
processing for production facilities and users with
ENVI/IDL expertise
– envi_doit, ‘envi_fx_doit’
• Vector and Attribute Export allows customers to
use Fx segmentation results in other analyses and
workflows
– export segments as features prior to classification
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New Feature Extraction Functionality
• Summary Panel
provides quick,
practical,
portable results
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New Feature Extraction Functionality
• Vector Smoothing for cleaner
and smoother results, with
fewer vertices and
generalized features
– Douglas-Peucker based
algorithm
– works on line and polygon
output
– user controls smoothing
threshold in pixels
• Create new vectors directly
in ENVI Fx
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New Feature Extraction Functionality
• Save/Restore training
data for supervised
classification
• Reuse training sets on
libraries of imagery
• Restore multiple training
sets to build multi-source
feature library
• Use saved training data
as input to batch Fx
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New Spectral Algorithm – Independent Component
Analysis (ICA)
• ICA transforms a set of mixed random signals into components that are as
mutually independent as possible
• Independent components uses higher order statistics than Principal
Components. Better distinguishes weak signals from background noise.
Cuprite, NV - AVIRIS
Kaolinite: (ICA band 6)
Alunite: (ICA band 1)
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Independent Component Analysis
• ICA can be used to find and separate
hidden (noise) component
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Independent Component Analysis
• Other applications of ICA
– anomaly detection
– dimension reduction
– noise reduction
– classification
– endmember extraction
• Programmatic interface
– envi_doit,
‘envi_ica_doit’
– envi_doit,
‘envi_ica_inv_doit’
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New Spectral Algorithm – Spectral Information
Divergence (SID)
• Classification technique (similar to SAM) that uses a divergence
measure to match pixels to reference spectra
• SID can characterize spectral similarity and variability more
effectively than SAM
• As with all spectral tools, programmatic access is provided
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ENVI 4.5 with IDL 7.0
• A single, cross-platform
IDL development
environment that looks
and behaves like a
native application
• The foundation for new
functionality that will
continue to improve the
usability of ENVI + IDL
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