Comments on: ERDAS Imagine – Earth Resources Data Analysis System

By: Cori

Cori — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:14:46 +0000

I love the history lesson. I started working with as of Erdas 7.5 at the prompt on pdp-11 and loved it from the start. Still working and teaching with Erdas Imagine…
I wonder if there is a version history. When did the radar tools come up?

By: David Nagel

David Nagel — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 06:27:10 +0000

I began working for Erdas, Inc. in 1986. At the time it was a start up company in an incubator facility on the campus of Georgia Tech University. The company was started by Lawrie Jordan and Bruce Rado, two amazing individuals. Both graduated from the Harvard School of Design (Landscape Architecture) under Dr. Carl Stienitz, maybe the first professor to teach GIS concepts in the U.S. Another classmate was Jack Dangermond. Lawrie and Bruce left Harvard to found Erdas, Inc., while Jack founded Esri. At the time, Erdas was a command line computer package that ran most efficiently on a PDP-11 or Microvax computer, although the software was transitioning to the DOS based personal computer, with a maximum hard drive capacity of 32 MB. Data was obtained on 9 track tapes, which were delivered to users through the mail, in response to a paper form and paper check, mailed to the data provider. Erdas Imagine was released in approximately 1989, I believe. There was much discussion about the product name and the entire company (about 50 employees) weighed in on the new name. The Erdas logo was branded in red one night when Lawrie and Bruce were looking out the window of their new office to see the headquarters of Coca Cola, in downtown Atlanta. They decided if red was good enough for Coke, it was good enough for Erdas. After much success, the company was sold to Intergraph. Lawrie went on to lead the remote sensing division of Esri, where he reunited with his classmate Jack Dangermond.

By: Kishor

Kishor — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:26:26 +0000

Very informative. Thanks.

By: michele

michele — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:22:27 +0000

The article is right.. unfortunately ERDAS still doesn’t let you perform an hierarchical OBIA, it means you can work with only one level of heterogeneity per time.. Anyways.. AM is a great software

By: Liz Dizon

Liz Dizon — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 02:38:47 +0000

Great article, but I have to agree with Mr. Joe Penor.
ERDAS Imagine have the IMAGINE Objective Add-on module for object-based classification.

By: Joe Penor

Joe Penor — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:44:09 +0000

Well… I have to say the article is pretty good except you are wrong with the object based classification. The ERDAS IMAGINE Objective add-on is object based and has shown to be equal to eCognition. Give it a shot.