I have released a new version of the Semi-Automatic OS v. 5, a free virtual machine based on Debian Linux, for the land cover classification of remote sensing images. It includes the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin (SCP) and QGIS, already configured along with all the required dependencies (OGR, GDAL, Numpy, SciPy, and Matplotlib).
The main features are:
- based on Debian 8, available in 32 bit and 64 bit;
- includes QGIS 2.8.2;
- includes the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin v. 5.0.8 - master, installed through the official master repository ( https://semiautomaticgit.github.io/SemiAutomaticClassificationPlugin/repository.xml ) which provides always the latest version of SCP;
- includes the PDF version of the User Manual of the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin and a sample dataset of Landsat image (available from the U.S. Geological Survey) and a Sentinel-2 image (© Copernicus Sentinel data 2016) which are the input for the two basic tutorials.