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1 The Idiots Guide to GIS and Remote Sensing 1. Picking the right imagery 1 2. Accessing imagery 1 3. Processing steps 1 a. Geocorrection 2 b. Processing Landsat images layerstacking 4 4. Landcover classification 6 a. Unsupervised 6 b. Supervised 8 c. Accuracy assessment Overlaying GPS points (ArcGIS) 11 Important references The ERDAS field guide gives lots of good info on processes in ERDAS and background: Ormsby et al. Getting to know ArcGIS 2 nd ed. Michael DeMers. GIS for Dummies. Congalton R. G A Review of Assessing the Accuracy of Classification of Remotely Sensed Data. Remote Sensing of the Environment 37: Daniel Friess : Postdoc Research Fellow : Biological Sciences/Civil Engineering : dan.friess@nus.edu.sg :

2 1. Picking the right imagery There are lots of different imagery sources from a wide number of sensors, both air- and spaceborne. How to choose? Temporal scale cannot use a modern sensor if you want historical imagery. Also, different sensors have different resolutions of data collection (one a day vs. once a year) Spatial scale different sensors have different areal coverage per single image. Pixel size no point in using imagery with a pixel size of 30 metres if the process of interest occurs at a 2 metre scale... Band selection what features are you trying to look for? Sensors are panchromatic (black and white), multispectral (different spectral bands e.g. visible, infrared, thermal) and hyperspectral (100 s of bands). Looking at terrestrial vegetation requires a different bandset from calculating sediment concentration in coastal waters. 2. Accessing imagery Free (or mostly free) Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland - ASTER, IKONOS, Quickbird, Landsat, MODIS, Orbview - United States Geological Survey - Landsat, ASTER, MODIS - Commercial CRISP, National University of Singapore SPOT, IKONOS, others Digital Globe - Worldview 1 & 2 panchromatic v. high resolution - DES Mapping solutions - Quickbird Processing steps To make accurate models or measurements from images, you have to ensure your imagery is accurate and contains no artifacts. E.g. if you are doing spectral statistics you have to make sure your bands have no spectral noise, and each flight strip has the same spectral calibration (radiometric correction). But that s quite technical; the most common processing steps you might need to do are a) geocorrection, and b) layerstacking. 1

3 a) Geocorrection This step is really important if you are taking measurements from the image then you have to be confident that your image is correct and not stretched or distorted. This is a big problem with trying to display a sphere (the Earth) as a flat image (your data). This is the main ERDAS Imagine toolbar: 1. Open the image you want to correct to e.g. line data or correctly geocorrected image 2. Open uncorrected image 3. On uncorrected image Raster Geometric Correction 4. For flat landscapes choose polynomial 5. Polynomial Model Properties appears. Click on Add/Change Projection and choose your projection. Map units should be in metres. 6. On geocorrection tools click on Start GCP Editor (the target symbol). 2

4 You will be asked where to collect the reference points from: click existing viewer and OK, and then click into the reference image. Click OK a few times (approximate statistics window). 7. Several screens will appear, with the uncorrected image on the left, the reference image on the right, and the GCP tool at the bottom. Make sure this is selected to choose a point 8. Select a point in the left image and the corresponding point in the reference image (e.g. building corner, ditch intersection, creek junction). To select a point the target symbol must be selected. 9. Make sure your first 3 points are spread out as far as possible in a triangle arrangement (not a line). After 3 points the model will predict the other points you choose. 10. If the predicted points are matching where they should be, or the RMS value is below your threshold then enough GCPs have been taken. 11. Click on Display Resample Image Dialog This one! On the following dialog choose an output file name and location and press OK 12. Once the process has run open the file in a new viewer. If needed, go file new AOI layer to draw an AOI to mask the photograph frame and save in the same location. 13. Repeat for the remaining images. 3

5 b) Processing Landsat images - layerstacking Landsat images are often distributed as Geotiff files (with separate Geotiff files for each band). A Geotiff is like a standard.tiff image file but has geographical information (coordinates) embedded. Each spectral band may be given to you as a separate Geotiff, so you ll need to get them overlaid into one master file before analysis. To import and amalgamate into a single image in ERDAS Imagine: 1. CHECK ALL THE BANDS. Open them individually are any blurry or covered in specks? You may want to discard bands with excessive noise. Also think about what bands you need if you re doing vegetation analysis you probably don t need the thermal bands, but you would if you were looking at soils. 2. Go to Import from the main ERDAS Imagine toolbar. Select Import, Type: Geotiff, Media: File, then select the Geotiff for band 1. Enter a file name in the output file (*.img). Click OK and then OK again on Import Tiff window. 3. Repeat this process for each of the other bands. 4

6 4. On the main ERDAS toolbar, go to the Interpreter/Utilities/Layer Stack module to combine your individual *.img files into a single multilayer *.img file. From the Layer Selection and Stacking dialog box, select your first band, then click the Add button to add it to the list of files that you want to combine into a single multilayer.img file. Then select the second input file and click the Add button again to add to your list of input.img files. Continue this process for all bands that you want to add. 5. After adding all the layers, specify an output filename and click OK. After this is finished, you can go to a Viewer window and open the image. Go to Utilities/Layer Information. You will note that, since this was imported from Geotiff files, there is complete map projection information. Go to Edit-Change Layer Name to give each layer a more descriptive name (e.g. something like TM_Band1, instead of the default name of simply Layer 1 ). This renaming is particularly important if you have imported only the non-thermal bands. In this case, the default layer names are potentially confusing (e.g., Layer 6 is really TM Band 7). 5

7 4. Landcover classification It can be very hard to tell different landcover types/vegetation communities/species from a truecolour image. However these classes all have different spectral signatures as they absorb and reflect different wavelengths. Below describes the processes used to classify land cover; the ERDAS Imagine field guide has lots of information on the principles, algorithms etc. a) Unsupervised This is a completely automated process where the system separates classes by distinct spectral differences. It has no user input, so requires no knowledge of what is actually on the ground. It is a fast process so good for classifying large areas over multiple images. 1. ERDAS main toolbar classifier unsupervised classification 2. Enter the input Raster file (e.g. the layerstacked Landsat image), output Raster and output signature file. The signature file is the description of your classes. 3. Under clustering options, the number of classes is really important. This should be representative of your scene. What is reasonable? How many classes do you expect? E.g. Urban_buildings + urban_roads + agriculture1 + agriculture2 + forest_species1 + forest_species2 + forest_mixed + cleared_forest + open_water = 9 potential classes. 6

8 4. Click OK and run the process. 5. Open output file in a new viewer The above is an example of a mangrove forest with cleared areas, new regrowth and an urban area. The process was run with 11 classes, but they should be more separability within the mangrove (brown/grey class, see arrow). In which case we can run again with more classes. 6. Also open the signature file produced, main toolbar classifier signature editor then open file. Under the view and evaluate menus you can see all sorts of statistics to show the separability of each class (e.g. contingency matrix). 7

9 b) Supervised classification This is a semi-automated classification, so requires user input to define areas. This means you can utilise your field knowledge to potentially make a more accurate classification. Use the unsupervised classification as a guide what classes to look out for etc. 1. Open signature editor 2. Open original spectral image in viewer. Go AOI tools. Select the polygon tool. 3. Draw AOIs (Areas of Interest) around areas that are uniform in their spectral response. These will be your training areas (to train the classification). Play around with the band combinations to check they are uniform under all wavelengths. You should also use ground-reference data or local site knowledge to pick these training areas. 8

10 4. After you ve drawn each AOI add it to the signature editor (See arrow). Rename it to what you think it is, and recolour. 5. In the signature editor go to classify supervised. Give the output file name (e.g. <image>_class1.img. Press OK to create the classified image, and open in a new viewer. 6. Compare the classified image (left) with the original (right). Are all the classes covered, and are they accurate? In this example, mature forest is not so well represented by the classification to the east of the creek (shaded area). It has also classified some parts of the forest as urban (the red class). 9

11 So on the original image add more AOIs and signatures to cover the areas that are not well represented. In this example we may need to add more AOIs to cover the mature forest class. We may need to do several iterations of classification until we get the most accurate landcover classification. Number all of these files <image>_class2.img, <image>_class3.img etc so you can compare them all. 7. You can also evaluate the signatures, similar to the unsupervised classification process. c) Accuracy Assessment This is the most important step in the whole process a remote sensing image is only a representation before you start doing any stats or analysis you have to be super confident that what you re showing is actually what is on the ground. With landcover classification, we use groundreference data that you have collected (e.g. vegetation quadrats with % species cover). There are a few ways of using this information: 1. Go main toolbar classifier accuracy assessment 2. Go file load image (your classified image) 3. Go edit import user-defined points 4. You ll also have to assign class values under Class Value Assignment Options. This will be a numeric value that you can find in your original signature editor. 5. Edit show class values 6. Report options select Kappa coefficient, error matrix, accuracy totals. 10

12 7. Report accuracy report The error matrix compares the reference points to the classified points. The Kappa coefficient expresses the proportionate reduction in error generated by a classification process compared with the error of a completely random classification. For example, a value of.82 would imply that the classification process was avoiding 82% of the errors that a completely random classification would generate. See the ERDAS field guide for more info. You can also do this by hand if you have your ground-reference data and a way to overlay your GPS points Overlaying GPS points If you ve been in the field, you probably have some data points you want to overlay on a base map, or you have field data that you want to use to assess the accuracy of your classification. Well, this is how you do it. 1. Get your GPS points into the right format. E.g. two columns with one header (x and y). If you do this in excel save it as.csv or.txt (tab delimited). You can then open it up in notepad to check it should look a little something like this: 2. Now SWITCH TO ArcMap/ArcGIS 3. Right click on layers and select add data 11

13 4. Add the background image (e.g. the classified image) 5. Your image will be displayed. Now go to tools add x y data. Load up the GPS point file and choose the right columns. Don t click OK yet! 12

14 6. Now we have to define the coordinate system for the points. Click edit. Since we already have a coordinate system just click on import. Or else you can find it manually by clicking on select. When you ve finished, click OK. That s all folks. 13

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