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Optimal Land Cover Mapping And Change Analysis In Northeastern Oregon Using Landsat Imagery., Michael J. Campbell, Russell G. Congalton, Joel N. Hartter
Optimal Land Cover Mapping And Change Analysis In Northeastern Oregon Using Landsat Imagery., Michael J. Campbell, Russell G. Congalton, Joel N. Hartter
Natural Resources & the Environment
Abstract The necessity for the development of repeatable, efficient, and accurate monitoring of land cover change is paramount to successful management of our planet’s natural resources. This study evaluated a number of remote sensing methods for classifying land cover and land cover change throughout a two-county area in northeastern Oregon (1986 to 2011). In the past three decades, this region has seen significant changes in forest management that have affected land use and land cover. This study employed an accuracy assessment-based empirical approach to test the optimality of a number of advanced digital image processing techniques that have recently emerged …