A MODIS Generated Land Cover Mapping of Honduras: A Base-Line Layout to Create a National Monitoring Center

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Revista de Teledetección

Volume

35

Publisher

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia * Editorial UPV

Publication Date

1-1-2011

First Page

94

Last Page

108

Abstract

The Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory at Utah State University (USU) began the process of establishing a remote sensing national land cover monitoring center in order to monitor land cover and use in Honduras. A national land cover map derived from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) imagery products was developed. We designed a protocol for interpreting and analysis of MODIS data products that included a Google-Earth on-screen sampling scheme, a field data collection of training samples and a classification tree algorithm. The first land cover map prototypes and algorithms were developed using a time series of MODIS 2007 and 2008 imagery, elevation data (SRTM) and a time series of MODIS's Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). In the model validation, the Kappa coefficient was K - 65.1% and the overall model accuracy was 70%. This map will serve as a base line to monitor future land cover changes in Honduras.

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