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: Received: 23 July 2018 / Approved: 23 July 2018 / Online: 23 July 2018 (15:33:55 CEST)
How to cite:
Hailu, B.T.; Fekadu, M.; Nauss, T. Availability of Global and National Scale Land Cover Products and Their Accuracy in Mountainous Areas of Ethiopia: A Review. Preprints2018, 2018070431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0431.v1
Hailu, B.T.; Fekadu, M.; Nauss, T. Availability of Global and National Scale Land Cover Products and Their Accuracy in Mountainous Areas of Ethiopia: A Review. Preprints 2018, 2018070431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0431.v1
Hailu, B.T.; Fekadu, M.; Nauss, T. Availability of Global and National Scale Land Cover Products and Their Accuracy in Mountainous Areas of Ethiopia: A Review. Preprints2018, 2018070431. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0431.v1
APA Style
Hailu, B.T., Fekadu, M., & Nauss, T. (2018). Availability of Global and National Scale Land Cover Products and Their Accuracy in Mountainous Areas of Ethiopia: A Review. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0431.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hailu, B.T., Mekbib Fekadu and Thomas Nauss. 2018 "Availability of Global and National Scale Land Cover Products and Their Accuracy in Mountainous Areas of Ethiopia: A Review" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201807.0431.v1
Abstract
A large variety of remote sensing-based land use/land cover (LULC) products are currently available on national and global scales. This literature review and in-situ validation study evaluates the suitability of these products for local scale applications in the complex terrain of the Ethiopian mountains. For the review, 146 research papers were analyzed. Most studies (73%) have been published since 2013 and are based on individually computed maps. Not a single study relied on readily available LULC products. Nine readily available LULC products with 20, 30, 300, 500 and 1,000 m spatial resolution have been identified at national and global scales. To complement and extend this body of research, the recent (since 2013) LULC products were validated using 185 ground truth points collected in the Bale Mountains National Park between 1,500 and 4,385 m a.s.l. The results indicate a rather poor overall accuracy (<50%).
Keywords
LULC Products, systematic review, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
