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Library Land use and land cover classification over a large area in Iran based on single date analysis of satellite imagery

Land use and land cover classification over a large area in Iran based on single date analysis of satellite imagery

Land use and land cover classification over a large area in Iran based on single date analysis of satellite imagery

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Date of publication
декабря 2011
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201600059832
Pages
608-619

Accelerated soil erosion, high sediment yields, floods and debris flow are serious problems in many areas of Iran, and in particular in the Golestan dam watershed, which is the area that was investigated in this study. Accurate land use and land cover (LULC) maps can be effective tools to help soil erosion control efforts. The principal objective of this research was to propose a new protocol for LULC classification for large areas based on readily available ancillary information and analysis of three single date Landsat ETM+ images, and to demonstrate that successful mapping depends on more than just analysis of reflectance values. In this research, it was found that incorporating climatic and topographic conditions helped delineate what was otherwise overlapping information. This study determined that a late summer Landsat ETM+ image yields the best results with an overall accuracy of 95%, while a spring image yields the poorest accuracy (82%). A summer image yields an intermediate accuracy of 92%. In future studies where funding is limited to obtaining one image, late summer images would be most suitable for LULC mapping. The analysis as presented in this paper could also be done with satellite images taken at different times of the season. It may be, particularly for other climatic zones, that there is a better time of season for image acquisition that would present more information.

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Saadat, Hossein
Adamowski, Jan
Bonnell, Robert
Sharifi, Forood
Namdar, Mohammad
Ale-Ebrahim, Sasan

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