GIS 4035 - Module 3 - LULC classification

For this weeks project, module 3, in GIS 4035 we were tasked with created a land use / land cover classification map for a provided aerial image file. A LULC level II code format was followed and the following codes were applied to the study area and the reasoning for why:

11- Residential - areas that contained buildings that were smaller than commercial size
12 - Commercial and Services - areas that contained larger than home sized buildings and large parking lots
14 - Transportation - main highway
43 - Mixed forest land - all woodland area was categorized under this classification of mixed
51 -  Streams and Canals - smaller streams leading from the bay were categorized as this
53 - Reservoirs - a few small retention ponds in the residential area
54 - Bays and Estuaries - the bay
62 - non-forested wetland - wetland area surrounding the bay that had no trees