Hello!

I am dealing with hierarchical data for mapping some elements under the sea from orthophoto imagery at 0.5m ground pixel resolution. What I would need is to be able to easily define which segmentation level is above which. I do not use multi-resolution segmentation for this since it eats up too much processing time and I use contrast split instead since it loops and extracts specific classes automatically (runs on a layer obtained from unsupervised classification to pull out, as an object, all of the obtained values without the need to manually enter each of those - THX Mathias for help here). 

The next step is to have segmentation above it where I managed to figure out how to classify above water objects [coast, rocks, boats through the use of abs. mean deviation filter (prototype)] and form a super object that I need to use then to remove the classification from all the sub-objects that are overlapping with this one big object above).

Now, the problem here is to be able to easily control which layer is above which. I am wondering, is it possible to generate an algorithm that will allow me to assign hierarchy values to levels easily? So I can say - the coast segmentation level is 1., the unsupervised thresholding level is 2. and similar (vertical hierarchy). This way I can rearrange them also at a later point if necessary. 

Another one that popped in my mind, can I automatically see what is the percentage of each under level class within my above level class without generating such a feature for each class and then checking it out?

That would make things easier since I am trying to automate a process that generates around 30-50 classes over each iteration and then tells me which classes are within and in which percentage of the above-generated chessboard segmentation. Would be cool to be able to count amount of specific classes within one above segment and use that too. Great for habitat complexity automation. 

Best regards to all! :)