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Land cover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices.

Dash, J., Mathur, A., Foody, G. M., Curran, P., Chipman, J. and Lillesand, T.M., 2007. Land cover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28 (6), 1137-1159.

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DOI: 10.1080/01431160600784259

Abstract

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.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0143-1161
Group:University Executive Team
ID Code:872
Deposited By:INVALID USER
Deposited On:13 Dec 2007
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:06

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