Land cover land use map for Myanmar at 30-m resolution for 2016

Chen, Dong; Baer, A. E.; He, Jiaying; Hoffman-Hall, A.; Shevade, Varada S.; Ying, Qing; Loboda, Tatiana V.

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“…Further, Myanmar National LCMS 36 maps the dominant land cover in CWS as Woody (Other Wooded Land) (Figure 3D) which is not considered as Forest. Both studies 35,36 fail to classify the dominant vegetation of CWS as forest and instead classify it as Shrubs/Grass or Woody, indicating that the vegetation is less than 5m tall which is not true according to ground conditions. Our forest type map can bene t both products by providing them with more accurate and detailed information on forest types.…”

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“…b) used single-class classi er to map a speci c forest types, such as Dry Deciduous forest 9,23 ; or c) mapped general land use and land cover with the inclusion of fewer and more general forest types [35][36][37] .…”

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“…Our map shows improved forest cover/type mapping in Central Myanmar. Previous studies tended to misclassify Dry Deciduous forests as other land use types 35,36 , or underestimate these forest types 9 . Our method of using region speci c tree cover thresholds facilitated improved mapping of the Dry Deciduous in Central Myanmar compared to existing products (Figure 3).…”

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“…At CWS, Dry Deciduous forest (e.g., Indaing) co-occurs with Mixed Deciduous forests 40 . We compared our forest type map of CWS to two existing national level land cover maps of Myanmari) Land cover land use map for Myanmar at 30-m resolution for 2016 35 , ii) Myanmar National Land Cover Monitoring System (LCMS) 36 Our comparison shows that we correctly mapped the dominant forest type in CWS as a mixture of Dry and Mixed Deciduous forests (Figure 3B) while 35 mapped the dominant land cover of CWS as Shrub and Grass (Figure 3C) which is not considered as natural forests according to their own de nition 37 . Further, Myanmar National LCMS 36 maps the dominant land cover in CWS as Woody (Other Wooded Land) (Figure 3D) which is not considered as Forest.…”

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Conservation Status of Forest Types Vary Greatly in Myanmar - the Most Forested Country in the Indo-burma Biodiversity Hotspot

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Diverse forests with distinct forest types, harbor exceptional biodiversity and provide many ecosystem goods and services, making some forest types more economically valuable and prone to exploitation than others. The high rates of deforestation in Southeast Asia endanger the existence of such vulnerable forest types. Myanmar, the region’s largest forest frontier provides a last opportunity to conserve these vulnerable forest types. However, the exact distribution and spatial extent of Myanmar’s forest types has not been well characterized. To address this research gap, we developed a national scale Forest Type map of Myanmar at 20m resolution, using moderate resolution, multi-sensor satellite images (Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and ALOS-PALSAR), extensive field data, and a machine learning model (RandomForest). We mapped nine major forest types and developed a Conservation Status Score to evaluate the conservation status of the mapped forest types. Swamp, Mangrove, Dry Deciduous, Lowland Evergreen and Thorn forests were ranked as the five least conserved forest types. We also identified the largest remaining patch for each of the five least conserved forest types and determined their protection status to inform future forest conservation policy. In most cases, these patches lay outside protected areas indicating areas that may be prioritized for future conservation.

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A Disease Control-Oriented Land Cover Land Use Map for Myanmar

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Malaria is a serious infectious disease that leads to massive casualties globally. Myanmar is a key battleground for the global fight against malaria because it is where the emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites has been documented. Controlling the spread of malaria in Myanmar thus carries global significance, because the failure to do so would lead to devastating consequences in vast areas where malaria is prevalent in tropical/subtropical regions around the world. Thanks to its wide and consistent spatial coverage, remote sensing has become increasingly used in the public health domain. Specifically, remote sensing-based land cover/land use (LCLU) maps present a powerful tool that provides critical information on population distribution and on the potential human-vector interactions interfaces on a large spatial scale. Here, we present a 30-meter LCLU map that was created specifically for the malaria control and eradication efforts in Myanmar. This bottom-up approach can be modified and customized to other vector-borne infectious diseases in Myanmar or other Southeastern Asian countries.

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Land cover land use map for Myanmar at 30-m resolution for 2016

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Conservation Status of Forest Types Vary Greatly in Myanmar - the Most Forested Country in the Indo-burma Biodiversity Hotspot

Conservation Status of Forest Types Vary Greatly in Myanmar - the Most Forested Country in the Indo-burma Biodiversity Hotspot

A Disease Control-Oriented Land Cover Land Use Map for Myanmar

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