Climate change, land use and land surveyors

Molen, P. van der; Mitchell, David

doi:10.1179/1752270615y.0000000029

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“…Deforestation is a very broad concept, consisting of cutting trees including frequent lopping, felling, and forest litter removal, walking, grazing, and seedling trampling. It can also be described as removing or damaging the vegetation in a forest insofar as it no longer sustains its natural flora and fauna [1]. When the research region is positioned in rough or mountainous areas, the significant part of pre-processing is a topographic correction.…”

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SCS+C Topographic Correction to Enhance SVM Classification Accuracy

Al-doski

Mansor

San

et al. 2020

JETAP

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The topographic impact may change the radiance values captured by the spacecraft sensors, resulting in distinct reflectance value for similar land cover classes and mischaracterization. The problem can be more clearly seen in rugged terrain landscapes than in flat terrains, such as the mountainous areas. In order to minimize topographic impacts, we suggested the implementation of Modified Sun-Canopy-Sensor Correction (SCS+C) technique to generate land cover maps in Gua Musang district which is located in a rugged mountainous terrain area in Kelantan state, Malaysia using an atmospherically corrected Landsat 8 imagery captured on 22 April 2014 by Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. The results showed that the SCS+C method reduces the topographic effect particularly in such a steep and forested terrain with classification accuracy improvement about 4% which was statistically significantly with the McNemar test value Z and P measured 6.42 and 0.0001 on the corrected image classification90.1%accuracy compared to the uncorrected image86.2%for the test area. Thus, the topographic correction is suggested to be the main step of the data pre-processing stage in mountainous terrain before SVM image classification

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