Shelby Farms Park is a 4,500-acre park located centrally in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.  The Heart of the Park is the final project of the Shelby Farms Park Master Plan, developed by James Corner Field Operations, approved by Shelby Farms Park Conservancy in 2008.  Construction on the project began in 2014, featuring an enlargement and ecological restoration of Patriot Lake and its watershed.  Changes made to the lake, renamed Hyde Lake, include: enlargement of the lake, the introduction of native wetland vegetation, increasing upland drainage, a new visitor’s center, and a new restaurant, new footpaths, access roads, and parking lots, environmentally friendly overflow parking and more than 3,000 trees were planted. 

 

Objectives:

• Perform iterative self-organizing cluster analysis of Landsat 8 images from September 2013 and October 2016

• Perform error analysis on isocluster classified images

• Assess changes in spatial distributions of classes