Christa's GIS Archive

Life got the better of me, and I forgot to upload my maps to my final project last semester. It wasn't a requirement to make a blog post for the final; however, I'd still like to archive my maps here at least before I forget again. The maps below are my LULC maps of Pebbledale Mine, showing changes from 2010 to 2019. I went with supervised classification to give myself the most control and to also challenge myself. There are definitely improvements to be made and drawbacks, which I outlined further in my final paper; but due to the time limitations and having personal plans that required me to finish this project a week ahead of time, I will hopefully be able to improve if I have to do a similar project or task in the future. Overall, still very proud of what I was able to accomplish and enjoy my maps!

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...