Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

• Published in: International journal of remote sensing Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 2607 - 2654
• Main Authors: Gong, Peng, Wang, Jie, Yu, Le, Zhao, Yongchao, Zhao, Yuanyuan, Liang, Lu, Niu, Zhenguo, Huang, Xiaomeng, Fu, Haohuan, Liu, Shuang, Li, Congcong, Li, Xueyan, Fu, Wei, Liu, Caixia, Xu, Yue, Wang, Xiaoyi, Cheng, Qu, Hu, Luanyun, Yao, Wenbo, Zhang, Han, Zhu, Peng, Zhao, Ziying, Zhang, Haiying, Zheng, Yaomin, Ji, Luyan, Zhang, Yawen, Chen, Han, Yan, An, Guo, Jianhong, Yu, Liang, Wang, Lei, Liu, Xiaojun, Shi, Tingting, Zhu, Menghua, Chen, Yanlei, Yang, Guangwen, Tang, Ping, Xu, Bing, Giri, Chandra, Clinton, Nicholas, Zhu, Zhiliang, Chen, Jin, Chen, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Taylor & Francis 10.04.2013
• Subjects: algorithms; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Antarctica; Applied geophysics; Areal geology. Maps; Biological and medical sciences; computer software; cropland; decision support systems; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Food and Agriculture Organization; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Techniques; Geologic maps, cartography; grasslands; Greenland; ice; Internal geophysics; land cover; Landsat; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; monitoring; shrublands; snow; surveys; Teledetection and vegetation maps; time series analysis; United States; polar regions; Antarctica; Arctic region; Greenland; United States; Thematic map; Thematic Mapper; land cover maps; Space remote sensing; Landsat; Map(geography); cartography; Classifier; Support vector machine; Earth surface; monitoring; Decision tree; Landsat satellite; Ecological map; maximum likelihood; Plant cover; land cover

We have produced the first 30 m resolution global land-cover maps using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data. We have classified over 6600 scenes of Landsat TM data after 2006, and over 2300 scenes of Landsat TM and ETM+ data before 2006, all selected from the g...