ACCURACY OF UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION TO DETERMINE CORAL HEALTH USING SPOT-6 AND SENTINEL-2A

Abstract

Characteristics of corals spectral from different species are expected to have optically different characters. The aims of this research are to compare unsupervised classification between IsoData and K-Means methods with Lyzenga application, and to analyze the precision of SPOT-6 and Sentinel-2A satellite imagery in classsifying shallow water habitat. The image processing are atmosferic correction, cropping, masking, Depth Invariant Index, Unsupervised classification, ground truthing, reclassify, accuracy assessment, and shallow water habitat spectral reflectance analysis. Rubble and dead coral with algae were indicating as coral death due to either damaging human activity or natural death such as bleaching. The accuracy of unsupervised classification IsoData and K-Means method have the same accuracy 62.50%. The IsoData method is better detected live coral and algae. Rubble were dominant detected in K-Means method.