Mosaicking Tiled QuickBird Imagery Using ERDAS Imagine Version 8.

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1. From the Data Prep icon select Mosaic Images.

2. When the Mosaic Tool window appears, select Add Images from the Edit menu.
3. The Add Images for Mosaic dialog box will appear. Browse to the files containing the tiled
imagery and select each tile in order from the Northwest corner. Change Filename: to *.TIF
or *.NTF (must be all caps) depending on which format you are using. Each tile has the row
and column number in the naming convention. (i.e. start with R1C1, R1C2, R2C1…).
Please see the tile map file (.til) delivered with your QuickBird imagery product for more
information on tile naming.
4. Highlight the image to add it and click on the Add button.
5. Do this for each successive tile, adding left to right, top to bottom.
6. The Mosaic Tool should look like the screenshot below, starting with the first tile at the
upper left and the last tile and the lower right.

7. When you have added all of the tiles, in the Mosaic

Tool window, select Process -> Run Mosaic. In the
resulting Run Mosaic window check the box Stats
Ignore Value: 0, enter an output File Name, and
select OK. A pop-up window appears displaying the
Percent Done of the data preparation. This step may
take some time, depending on the size and number of
tiles. When complete, click OK to close the window.
8. Now open the new image created, this is the output
File Name entered in the previous step.
9. The image displayed below is the output of the
process described in this document.

Defaults to select for mosaicking QuickBird Image tiles internal to one snap:

1. No Matching Option
2. Do not check box for color balancing (this is
already done)
3. Select default pixel value and not look up table
4. Select no cutline
5. Select Overlay

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