ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 supports the JPEG2000 and GeoJP2 data format developed by Mapping Science, Inc. It adds the capacities to display and create JPEG2000 images in the JPEG2000 format. This improves upon the ability to quickly and easily read geospatially-registered image data in the JPEG2000 format previously offered in ERDAS IMAGINE 8.6.

ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 also features an improved mosaic tool. These improvements include the ability to import/export cut lines, the ability to conduct image smoothing along cut lines, color balance imagery using dodging and support for rotated output sheets.

The new features added to the IMAGINE GLT™ interface expand the efficiency of image exploitation. The expanded use of DirectX 8.1 or higher allows users to roam smoothly through extremely large sets of imagery. The IMAGINE GLT uses multithreaded processors, one for rendering and one for reading data from a disk. This improvement also visually improves zooming and rotation of data.


Other improvements in ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 include:
• Fuzzy Recode for deconflicting land cover classifications
• Dozens of new raster dlls, importers and exporters for seamless data access
• Expanded list of projections, spheroids and datums, including new vertical datum transformations
• Improvements to IMAGINE VirtualGIS® for rendering large amounts of data

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Suggested Resources:

• ERDAS IMAGINE Brochure
• ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 What's New
  

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