Statewide land cover derived from multiseasonal Landsat TM data: A retrospective of the WISCLAND project
Remote Sensing of Environment
By: H.M. Reese, T. M. Lillesand, D.E. Nagel, J.S. Stewart, R.A. Goldmann, T.E. Simmons, J.W. Chipman, and P.A. Tessar
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Abstract
Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data were the basis in production of a statewide land cover data set for Wisconsin, undertaken in partnership with U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Gap Analysis Program (GAP). The data set contained seven classes comparable to Anderson Level I and 24 classes comparable to Anderson Level II/III. Twelve scenes of dual-date TM data were processed with methods that included principal components analysis, stratification into spectrally consistent units, separate classification of upland, wetland, and urban areas, and a hybrid supervised/unsupervised classification called "guided clustering." The final data had overall accuracies of 94% for Anderson Level I upland classes, 77% for Level II/III upland classes, and 84% for Level II/III wetland classes. Classification accuracies for deciduous and coniferous forest were 95% and 93%, respectively, and forest species' overall accuracies ranged from 70% to 84%. Limited availability of acceptable imagery necessitated use of an early May date in a majority of scene pairs, perhaps contributing to lower accuracy for upland deciduous forest species. The mixed deciduous/coniferous forest class had the lowest accuracy, most likely due to distinctly classifying a purely mixed class. Mixed forest signatures containing oak were often confused with pure oak. Guided clustering was seen as an efficient classification method, especially at the tree species level, although its success relied in part on image dates, accurate ground troth, and some analyst intervention. ?? 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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Reese, H., Lillesand, T.M., Nagel, D., Stewart, J., Goldmann, R., Simmons, T., Chipman, J., Tessar, P., 2002, Statewide land cover derived from multiseasonal Landsat TM data: A retrospective of the WISCLAND project: Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 82, no. 2-3, p. 224-237, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00039-1.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Statewide land cover derived from multiseasonal Landsat TM data: A retrospective of the WISCLAND project |
| Series title | Remote Sensing of Environment |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00039-1 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Year Published | 2002 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Remote Sensing of Environment |
| First page | 224 |
| Last page | 237 |