Land cover classification of central Arizona-Phoenix using Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) data, year 2005
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Author(s):
Abstract:
A fundamental dataset required for ecosystem analysis consists of the major types of land cover present in the study area and their areal percentages. Land cover refers to the physical nature of the surficial materials present in a given area such as water, grass, clay-rich soil, asphalt, or concrete. Land cover classification can be used as input into a variety of ecological models, and land cover maps can be constructed to aid in planning field sampling strategy. The land cover types can also be linked to different land use categories to investigate temporal and spatial changes in the urban ecosystem.
Keywords:
Land-Use, Land-Cover and Land Architecture,
disturbance patterns sonoran desert,
phoenix,
urban,
metropolitan area,
land architecture,
land use changes,
gis,
land use,
land cover,
database remote sensing gis applications,
remote sensing,
landsat,
long term monitoring,
change detection,
national land cover dataset,
LULC,
Land-Use, Land-Cover and Land Architecture water,
land use,
maps,
land cover,
modeling,
soil,
disturbances,
landsat,
grasses,
ecosystems caplter,
central arizona phoenix longterm ecological research,
arizona,
caplter created,
az,
cap,
arid land
Temporal Coverage:
2005-03-08
Geographic Coverage:
Geographic Description: Central Arizona Phoenix
Bounding Coordinates:
Longitude:-112.775139 to -111.569515
Latitude:33.850629 to 33.204016
Contact:
Information Manager,
Global Institute of Sustainability,Arizona State University,POB 875402,TEMPE
caplter.data@asu.edu
Methods used in producing this dataset:
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This Land Use and Land Cover classification was produced using the expert system model that was originally developed for the set of Landsat images acquired in May 24 and June 18, 1998 (Stefanov et al. 2001). The model performs a posteriori sorting of classes initially derived using Maximum Likelihood Supervised Classification by integrating with geographically co-registered auxiliary data layers such as land-use maps, variance texture computed for the 3X3 or 5X5 pixel neighborhood, water rights database, city boundaries, and Native American reservation boundaries. These additional GIS layers are updated accordingly to reflect changes in land use. Our final classification consists of 12 classes and has a reported overall accuracy of 83 %. 1057 randomly generated reference points stratified by land cover classes were used in accurayUser’s accuracy for individual classes varied from 71% to 100% with the exception of commercial/industrial class (51%). Overall Kappa statistic is 0.8127. Erdas Imagine software was used to run all analyses.
Data Files (1) :
Raster:
Land cover classification, 2005
Description: Landsat images acquired in May 24 and June 18, 1998 (Stefanov et al. 2001). The model performs a posteriori sorting of classes initially derived using Maximum Likelihood Supervised Classification by integrating with geographically co-registered auxiliary data layers such as land-use maps, variance texture computed for the 3X3 or 5X5 pixel neighborhood, water rights database, city boundaries, and Native American reservation boundaries.
Horizontal Coordinate System:WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_12N
Rows:2472
Columns:3901
Column |
Description |
Type |
Units |
ObjectID |
Internal feature number.
|
OID |
|
Cell Value |
Thematic Value of the cell
|
Integer |
Enumeration:
-
1: Cultivated Vegetation (Active)
-
3: Fluvial and Lacustrine Sediments
(Canals)
-
4: Compacted Soil (Prior Agricultural
Use)
-
6: Distributed (Commercial/Industrial)
-
7: Disturbed (Asphalt and Concrete)
-
10: Disturbed (Mesic Residential)
-
11: Disturbed (Xeric Residential)
|
Class_names |
Class_names
|
string |
Enumeration:
-
1: Cultivated Vegetation (Active)
-
3: Fluvial and Lacustrine Sediments
(Canals)
-
4: Compacted Soil (Prior Agricultural
Use)
-
6: Distributed (Commercial/Industrial)
-
7: Disturbed (Asphalt and Concrete)
-
10: Disturbed (Mesic Residential)
-
11: Disturbed (Xeric Residential)
|
Number of pixels |
Number of pixels of each land use - land cover type used to
build a histogram
|
Double |
number |