Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing Module 9

This week we're back to land use land cover classification from aerial imagery, this time using automated methods. In this lab, we learned how to perform unsupervised classification in both ArcMap and ERDAS Imagine, culminating in a classified image of the UWF campus. For this assignment, the image was automatically classified into 50 different classes based on pixel characteristics, then manually simplified into five classes by identifying the broad LULC category each of the original 50 classes. My output is below; I ended up with a significant portion of the image falling into the "Mixed" class, which consists of pixels whose automatically assigned spectral class spanned multiple LULC classes (most of the confusion seemed to be between grass and buildings/roads--when I started out by assigning classes to the grass category, I suddenly had a number of green roofs!).