Estimate the total forest area of this county in year 2000 according to the forest area of 112 raster units of TM image of Heshun county in Shanxi province
Step 1: Prepare the raster data of the sampling zone, then enter the spatial sampling interface:
Select: “ New Sampling Design-> Having sampling site data ”。
“ Sampling Design ” is the file that save the sampling design data, created and named by user, its postfix is.prj;
“Map of the region” is the RS image of the prepared sampling zone (it is .img format);
“Sample Site Layer” is the gained site data (it is the .shp file of ARCGIS) .
Step 2: Select the statistical features of the sample values
The selected sampling model is simple random sampling, sample value feature is “VALUE”. In Figure 2, Bvalue1 Bvalue2 Bvalue3 are the different waves of the image, the value is the grey level of this sample site in these waves, “Value” is the investigated forest area of the sample.
Figure 2.Select the layer file
Step 3: View the statistical results
The statistical results of sample feature are on the left, the scatter plot is on the right.
(Because the sampling sites are generated randomly each time, and the change of each sample site is larger, the screenshots results and the calculation results may be not complete agreement)
Note: Before creating the new project file or importing the existed one, user need to close the opened project file.