ENVI Feature Extraction Industry Solutions

GIS professionals and image analysts in virtually every industry, including urban planning, defense and intelligence, agriculture, and forestry, increasingly use geospatial imagery to find important information about geographic areas of interest. No longer simply a backdrop to a map, imagery is quickly evolving as a key analysis component in the GIS workflow.

The ability to find and extract features from imagery is a particularly useful capability. ENVI Fx combines an intuitive interface with automated workflows and faster processing times to make feature extraction accessible to users of any experience level.

Regional and Urban Planning

• Measure encroachment
• Inventory urban landscape features like buildings and roads
• Identify large land cover classes to generate a vegetation map

Forestry

• Monitor forest health
• Identify invasive species
• Track and enforce logging restrictions
• Assess fire damage

Oil /Gas /Petroleum

• Manage assets
• Map sites
• Explore remote areas
• Classify land cover
• Assess environmental impact
• Map geomorphology

Defense and Intelligence

• Find tanks, helicopters, and other military vehicles
• Find roads and coastlines for mission planning
• Identify landing strips

Environment and Conservation

• Monitor coastal conditions
• Identify zones of de-vegetation associated with extraction and urban encroachment
• Detect ice boundaries

Disaster Management

• Measure flood extent
• Assess coastal damage after hurricanes
• Find fire boundaries