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Appendix 3.1 Selected commercial and public image processing systems sued for earth resource
mapping and their functions
(Operating systems: W = Microsoft Windows 98; U = Unix; NT = Microsoft NT, Mac = Macintosh; Functions: • = significant capability; 0 = moderate capability; no symbol = little or no
capability) [updated from Jensen, 1996]
System Operating
Pre Display Info Soft- Meta- Image/ GIS
IP/
System
Pro&
Extrac Copy
data
Map
GIS
cessing Enhan- tion Photo Lineage Cartocement
graphy
Commercial
Applied
WUNT
•
Analysis
CORE
WU
0
0
0
HardCore
CORE
WU
•
0
ImageNet
Dragon
W
• • •
•
EarthView
W
• • •
•
EIDETIC
W
0
•
0
ESRI
MacWU
• •
0
• • •
Image
NT
Analyst
ENVI
MacWU
• • •
•
0
NT
ERDAS
WUNT
• • • • • • • •
Imagine
ERIM
U
• • • • • • • •
ER
UNT
• • • •
• • •
Mapper
GAIA
Mac
0
0
0
GENASYS
WU
• • •
• • •
GenIsis
W
0
0
0
0
Global Lab
W
•
0
Image
GRASS
U
• • •
• • • •
Helava
WU
• • • •
• • •
Associates
IDRISI
WNT
• • •
• • •
Intergraph
WNTU
• • • • • • • •
Leica
WU
• • • •
• • •
PCI
MacWNT
• • • •
• • •
U
Photoshop MacW NT
0
•
0
U
MacSadie
Mac
• • •