A final project forms a significant component of this course. To complete the project will require you to use IDRISI in order to conduct an image classification using the skills and knowledge you have gained throughout the course.

A complete project description can be found here. The marking scheme that will be used in marking your project can be found here.

We will provide the data to you-- SPOT images covering portions of two urban areas: Port Perry, ON and Port Coquitlam, BC areas. We also have a Landsat image of an agricultural area near Brandon, MB, and another Landsat image from an area in BC TBD (suitable for a resource analysis). The data are available from the Departmental server at the usual location (G:\courses\data\IDRISI_labs\project).

NOTE: When performing either an unsupervised or a supervised classification you should use ALL of the available layers, even though in the labs you used only a subset of the available layers. For example, when producing a supervised classification using the SPOT data, you should use all 4 layers in your classifications, and when classifying the forestry data (Mt. Gladstone) you should use all 5 layers in your classifications (Cluster, Isocluster, [e.g.] Maxlike).

NOTE: The bands in the SPOT images appear to have been mislabeled (as downloaded from GeoBase). Although this mislabeling will not affect the classification results, it does make generating a false colour image problematic. In order to generate a false colour image as 'expected' you need to renumber the bands as follows:

Please do not save these folders / files to your home drive on H: without zipping them first.

Due date: Friday, April 13^th, in the main office by noon.

Marks: 20% of your final mark; late penalty, 1% per day, weekend counts as 1 day.

A resource that provides links to sites that can provide free satellite imagery. For example, from here you can search for and download Landsat data, most of it for free (I used this site to obtain the two Landsat images mentioned above). The SPOT imagery was obtained from GeoBase, and this in this document they describe how they processed the files.