Colour Composite and Classification in IDRISI

Prepared By:
Oluwafemi. A. OPALEYE

27th October, 2009.

Importing TIFF Image to IDRISI

1) Set Data path from File

2) Click File and navigate to import
3) Then, navigate to Desktop Publishing Format
4) Click TIFIDRIS
5) Under TIFIDRIS conversion, check TIF to Idrisi
6) Input the TIF image
7) Give name for the output file
8) Click Ok to finish.

Colour Composite

1) Click Image Processing and navigate to Enhancement and to Composite

2) From the Composite- Image Compositing Utility; Input the 3 bands (Blue,
Green, and Red) respectively.
3) Give name for the output image
4) Under Contrast Stretch type; click Histogram Equalization
5) Under output type click create 8-bit Composite
6) Click OK to finish.

Unsupervised Classification

1) Click Image Processing and navigate to Hard Classifier and to Cluster

2) Input the Composite Image
3) Give name for the Output Image
4) Click Fine, under Generalization Rule
5) Set maximum number of clusters under the Clustering Rule
6) Click Ok to finish
7) To name the classes; click File, navigate to Metadata and click on Legend
8) Click on File and save changes.
9) Close the Legend and the unnamed Classification.
10) To display the Unsupervised Image; Click Display Launcher under Display
11) Check Raster layer, then browse for the image from your set data path.
12) Click Ok to display image
Supervised Classification

1) Click Display Launcher under Display

2) Browse for the Composite Image and click ok to display it
3) Click on Digitize tool from the tool bar
4) Give name for the layer to be created and check polygon under layer type.
5) Click Ok to start digitizing
6) Digitize the identified land feature after zooming and right click to finish.
7) Pick the Save Digitized Data tool to save
8) Pick the Digitize tool to add other features to the active layer.
9) Click Image Processing; navigate to Signature and MAKSIG (for signature
extraction)
10) Input the vector file you created earlier
11) Click on Enter signature files names to name the Classes
12) Brose and input the bands
13) Click Ok to finish
14) Click Image Processing, navigate to Hard Classifier and then to MINDIST (for
minimum distance classification)
15) Check infinite under Maximum Search Distance
16) Browse for the Signature Files named earlier
17) Give output file name
18) Click next, then OK to Finish