Week 5 - LiDAR

This was an interesting challenge as well. I have dont this in the past some. The thing I did - not sure if anyone else did - was clean up the txt file as the data was a little messy. This took a little while as there were lots of points. I did add a photo behind it just to make sure it was projected correctly.

Week 10 - Homeland Security

A little glimpse into some quick analysis and thinking on how to assess areas for security purposes. No real major hangups on this one. I was familiar enough with the area to know where to put some observation points. Running viewsheds did take a little time and I am not sure I put enough into - reduced due to speed but I understand the process a little so I think I got what I was supposed to out of the class.

Week 4 Supervised Classification

This class challenge was interesting. As always with the class, the more you know, the more you don't know. ERDAS remains a challenge but in some ways - it is getting better. I did have to jump through a few hoops for being able to post these images. My xps viewer somehow has been corrupted and I just did a complete Windows update yesterday. So screen capture on the UWF server, crop in paint, paste in illustration, export to jpg...and now I have an image at least. Or you can just go to the links for the xps files. They at least look a little crisper.

http://students.uwf.edu/mpm18/remot_sensing/wk4_1.xps

http://students.uwf.edu/mpm18/remot_sensing/wk4_2.xps

Week 3 - Georeferencing

Week 3 involved georeferencing an aerial of Pensacola to a topo. The process was very well detailed by Ms. Holtzclaw. There are certainly many factors and issues to consider and this exercise was very much the tip of the iceberg. ERDAS is becoming a little easier to manuever around in however it is still very querky. Many crashes especially when trying to make the grid lines to something other than solid. The program just didn't like that so the map isn't a masterpiece but it is done.
http://students.uwf.edu/mpm18/remot_sensing/mod3.xps

Mod 2 Spectral Bands Basics

The assignment this week was to learn about the spectral band combinations and how changing these helps to identify various features on an image, how to interpret the layer info and use this information. There is a lot to an image and knowing a little about the background info is important. I enjoyed this exercise and am getting a little used to ERDAS as well.
Module 2 Map 1 - Identify Water
Module 2 Map 2 - Identify Glaciers
Module 2 Map 3 - Shallow Water