Object Oriented Course Summary - Teachers
Learning Objectives
By the end of these units your students should be aware of: -
- The purpose of Definiens and the advantages of undertaking object oriented rule based classification.
- Have a good working knowledge of basic rule based classification using Definiens Developer.
- Aware of the advanced features available within Definiens Developer from which they could build on in the future as their experience with the software increases.
Teaching Resources
The below teaching resources can be downloaded and used in a classroom environment. If you would like to adapt any of these materials then please contact the author of the course to seek permission to do so.
Download the Object Oriented Course Manual PDF (5.46 MB)
Download the Object Oriented Course Presentation Slides (525 KB) provided by Dr Peter Bunting, University of Aberystwyth.
If your institution does not have Definiens Developer Version 7.0 a trial version of the software can be downloaded for free which will allow your students to work through most of the unit content.
| View Unit | Duration |
Data and Unit Teacher Guides |
Unit Map |
| Unit 1. Definiens Introduction | 1 hour |
Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales. |
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| Unit 2. Image Segmentation | 1.5 hours |
Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) |
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| Unit 3. Nearest Neighbour Classification | 1.5 hours | Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) Download Unit 3 Data (56 KB) Unit 3 Teacher Guide PDF (14.3 KB) Word (26.0 KB) |
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| Unit 4. Rule Based Classification | 1 hour | Landsat 7 orthol7_20423xs100999.img (Row 204 Path 23 Date 10/09/19999) over North Wales and the panchromatic scene orthol7_20423_pan.tif (Row: 204 Path: 23 Date 10/09/1999) Download Unit 4 Data (16.6 MB) Unit 4 Teacher Guide PDF (34.4 KB) Word (28.0 KB) |
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| Unit 5. Threshold Identification | 2 hours | Identification_of_Thresholds.tif Download Unit 5 Data (4.0 KB) Unit 5 Teacher Guide PDF (14.9 KB) Word (26.5 KB) |
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| Unit 6. Working with Levels | 1.5 hours | crowns_forest_image.tif Download Unit 6 Data (8.0 KB) Unit 6 Teacher Guide PDF (34.1 KB) Word (26.0 KB) |
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| Unit 7. Putting It All Together | 4 hours |
LandcoverClassificationExample_provided.dcp LandcoverClassificationExample.dcp |
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| Unit 8. Calculating Image Thresholds | 3 hours |
Landsat 7 image orthol7_20424xs240799.img (Row: 204 Path: 24 Date 24/07/1999) over South Wales |
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Other Course Suggestions
If you students are finding the Object-Oriented Course very difficult then it might be worth them working through one of the Image Processing Courses which addresses alot of the basic principles of remote sensing and image processing.
