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Landcover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices

Landcover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices
Landcover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices
The spectral, spatial, and temporal resolutions of Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) data are attractive for regional- to global-scale land cover mapping. Moreover, two novel and operational vegetation indices derived from MERIS data have considerable potential as discriminating variables in land cover classification. Here, the potential of these two vegetation indices (the MERIS global vegetation index (MGVI), MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (MTCI)) was evaluated for mapping eleven broad land cover classes in Wisconsin. Data acquired in the high and low chlorophyll seasons were used to increase inter-class separability. The two vegetation indices provided a higher degree of inter-class separability than data acquired in many of the individual MERIS spectral wavebands. The most accurate landcover map (73.2%) was derived from a classification of vegetation index-derived data with a support vector machine (SVM), and was more accurate than the corresponding map derived from a classification using the data acquired in the original spectral wavebands.
0143-1161
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Dash, J.
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Mathur, A.
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Foody, G.M.
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Curran, P.J.
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Chipman, J.
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Dash, J.
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Chipman, J.
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Dash, J., Mathur, A., Foody, G.M., Curran, P.J., Chipman, J. and Lillesand, T.M. (2007) Landcover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (6), 1137-1159. (doi:10.1080/01431160600784259).

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The spectral, spatial, and temporal resolutions of Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) data are attractive for regional- to global-scale land cover mapping. Moreover, two novel and operational vegetation indices derived from MERIS data have considerable potential as discriminating variables in land cover classification. Here, the potential of these two vegetation indices (the MERIS global vegetation index (MGVI), MERIS terrestrial chlorophyll index (MTCI)) was evaluated for mapping eleven broad land cover classes in Wisconsin. Data acquired in the high and low chlorophyll seasons were used to increase inter-class separability. The two vegetation indices provided a higher degree of inter-class separability than data acquired in many of the individual MERIS spectral wavebands. The most accurate landcover map (73.2%) was derived from a classification of vegetation index-derived data with a support vector machine (SVM), and was more accurate than the corresponding map derived from a classification using the data acquired in the original spectral wavebands.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 June 2006
Published date: 2007

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Local EPrints ID: 38543
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/38543
ISSN: 0143-1161
PURE UUID: 1e2e8818-5e85-40d1-8a24-fd0afa9dcba0
ORCID for J. Dash: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-2109

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Date deposited: 16 Jun 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:35

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Author: J. Dash ORCID iD
Author: A. Mathur
Author: G.M. Foody
Author: P.J. Curran
Author: J. Chipman
Author: T.M. Lillesand

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