GLOBE Assessment
Grade 5-8

Unsupervised Clustering Land Cover Mapping Protocol Test

The Unsupervised Clustering Land Cover Mapping protocol test assesses students' ability to cluster land cover sites using the MultiSpec system.

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students--> Student activity & Level of Performance + appropriate student performance - inappropriate student performance n.a. not appropriate or not observed

Using MultiSpec program on computer

Open file with LANDSAT TM image of study site

Create new project

Select "Cluster" function ; select # according to groups you wish to classify

Add information as directed by program/tutorial

Assign land cover class to each category

Rename clusters to correspond with MUC class

Save classified clustered image as TIFF file

Get instructions for data report to GLOBE