Land Cover Mapping for Green House Gas Inventories in Eastern and Southern Africa Using Landsat and High Resolution Imagery: Approach and Lessons Learnt

Author(s):  
Phoebe Oduor ◽  
Jaffer Ababu ◽  
Robinson Mugo ◽  
Hussein Farah ◽  
Africa Flores ◽  
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Author(s):  
Rahul Neware

This paper focuses on the crucial role that remote sensing plays in divining land features. Data that is collected distantly provides information in spectral, spatial, temporal and radiometric domains, with each domain having the specific resolution to information collected. Diverse sectors such as hydrology, geology, agriculture, land cover mapping, forestry, urban development and planning, oceanography and others are known to use and rely on information that is gathered remotely from different sensors. In the present study, IRS LISS IV Multi-spectral data is used for land cover mapping. It is known, however, that the task of classifying high-resolution imagery of land cover through manual digitizing consumes time and is way too costly. Therefore, this paper proposes accomplishing classifications by way of enforcing algorithms in computers. These classifications fall in three classes: supervised, unsupervised, and object-based classification. In the case of supervised classification, two approaches are relied upon for land cover classification of high-resolution LISS-IV multispectral image. These approaches are Maximum Likelihood and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Finally, the paper proposes a step-by-step procedure for optical image classification methodology. This paper concludes that in optical data classification, SVM classification gives a better result than the ML classification technique.


Author(s):  
Runmin Dong ◽  
Weizhen Fang ◽  
Haohuan Fu ◽  
Lin Gan ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant J. Scott ◽  
Matthew R. England ◽  
William A. Starms ◽  
Richard A. Marcum ◽  
Curt H. Davis

2020 ◽  
Vol 247 ◽  
pp. 111945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yindan Zhang ◽  
Gang Chen ◽  
Jelena Vukomanovic ◽  
Kunwar K. Singh ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ned Horning ◽  
Erica Fleishman ◽  
Peter J. Ersts ◽  
Frank A. Fogarty ◽  
Martha Wohlfeil Zillig

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