In this work, satellite images for Razaza Lake and the surrounding areadistrict in Karbala province are classified for years 1990,1999 and2014 using two software programming (MATLAB 7.12 and ERDASimagine 2014). Proposed unsupervised and supervised method ofclassification using MATLAB software have been used; these aremean value and Singular Value Decomposition respectively. Whileunsupervised (K-Means) and supervised (Maximum likelihoodClassifier) method are utilized using ERDAS imagine, in order to getmost accurate results and then compare these results of each methodand calculate the changes that taken place in years 1999 and 2014;comparing with 1990. The results from classification indicated thatwater and hills are decreased, while vegetation, wet land and barrenland are increased for years 1999 and 2014; comparable with 1990.The classification accuracy was done by number of random pointschosen on the study area in the field work and geographical data thencompared with the classification results, the classification accuracy forthe proposed SVD method are 92.5%, 84.5% and 90% for years1990,1999,2014, respectivety, while the classification accuracies forunsupervised classification method based mean value are 92%, 87%and 91% for years 1990,1999,2014 respectivety.