QGIS: Becoming a GIS Power User

Performing supervised classification of raster layers

In the previous recipes, we saw how to change the values of a raster layer and create classes. When you have several layers, classifying might not be that easy, and defining the patterns to perform this classification might not be obvious. A different technique to be used in this case is to define zones that share a common characteristic and let the corresponding algorithm extract the statistical values that define them so that this can later be applied to perform the classification itself. This is known as Supervised classification, and this recipe explains how to do this in QGIS.

Getting ready

Open the classification.qgs project. It contains an RGB image and a vector layer with polygons.

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