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Biblioteca Land-cover classification in a moist tropical region of Brazil with Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery

Land-cover classification in a moist tropical region of Brazil with Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery

Land-cover classification in a moist tropical region of Brazil with Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2011
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400106935
Pages
8207-8230

This research aims to improve land-cover classification accuracy in a moist tropical region in Brazil by examining the use of different remote-sensing-derived variables and classification algorithms. Different scenarios based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) spectral data and derived vegetation indices and textural images and different classification algorithms, maximum likelihood classification (MLC), artificial neural network (ANN), classification tree analysis (CTA) and object-based classification (OBC), were explored. The results indicate that a combination of vegetation indices as extra bands into Landsat TM multi-spectral bands did not improve the overall classification performance, but the combination of textural images was valuable for improving vegetation classification accuracy. In particular, the combination of both vegetation indices and textural images into TM multi-spectral bands improved the overall classification accuracy (OCA) by 5.6% and the overall kappa coefficient (OKC) by 6.25%. Comparison of the different classification algorithms indicated that CTA and ANN have poor classification performance in this research, but OBC improved primary forest and pasture classification accuracies. This research indicates that use of textural images or use of OBC are especially valuable for improving the vegetation classes such as upland and liana forest classes that have complex stand structures and large patch sizes.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Li, Guiying
Lu, Dengsheng
Moran, Emilio
Hetrick, Scott

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