Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Skytruth Prep

We are now working as a team to analyze several sets of Landsat images for a 2010 evaluation of Mountain Top Removal Mining.   Although this portion not been a mountain top experience, it once again has been an experience for the record books.   Analyzing data that will be used by others on the web for future use is a first.  Understanding more about aerial photographs and how the layers of a Landsat image is clearer than before.  These pictures truly have more than a thousand words to share.

My part as a member of  Group 5 was to evaluate a portion of Landsat # LT50190352010243EDC00. The image was classed using the unsupervised raster program in ERDAS, then hand classified in ArcMap.  The pink portions are potential MTR areas.  The image contains numerous mixed urban areas and the clutter, noise from the classification has not been completed.  A state underlay map would have been helpful in hindsite.



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