GIS5027 Module 2: Land Use/Land Cover & Ground Truthing
If I had one word to describe Module 2's lab, it would be "restraint". Restraint because I needed to restrain myself from being a perfectionist and trying to fix every little thing I catch. I can get lost in the weeds and not see the whole forest for the trees, so to speak. So, giving myself the room to not digitize as strictly as I would normally proved quite difficult. Module 2 covered Land Use/Land Cover as well as Ground Truthing of the Pascagoula, Mississippi area. We were provided an aerial to classify the LULC codes over the entire satellite imagery. Not gonna lie, this was pretty daunting. I've never had to do anything like this -- usually it's specific areas like mining or impact areas. So to do the entire tile felt intimidating, but I was up to the challenge. I made sure to break things up by the larger areas to smaller areas, that way the larger spaces could be accounted for first and I could worry about the finer detailed sections later. Honestly, I dr...