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ArticleRemote sensing2021

Vegetation Types Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Images in the Google Earth Engine Platform.

Masoumeh Aghababaei, Ataollah Ebrahimi, Ali Asghar Naghipour, Esmaeil Asadi, Jochem Verrelst

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Masoumeh AghababaeiDepartment of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord 8818634141, Iran.
Ataollah EbrahimiDepartment of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord 8818634141, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-5166-4646
Ali Asghar NaghipourDepartment of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord 8818634141, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-6239-7670
Esmaeil AsadiDepartment of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord 8818634141, Iran.
Jochem VerrelstImage Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Científic, Universitat de Valencia, 46980 Paterna, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6313-2081

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Vegetation Types (VTs) are important managerial units, and their identification serves as essential tools for the conservation of land covers. Despite a long history of Earth observation applications to assess and monitor land covers, the quantitative detection of sparse VTs remains problematic, especially in arid and semiarid areas. This research aimed to identify appropriate multi-temporal datasets to improve the accuracy of VTs classification in a heterogeneous landscape in Central Zagros, Iran. To do so, first the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) temporal profile of each VT was identified in the study area for the period of 2018, 2019, and 2020. This data revealed strong seasonal phenological patterns and key periods of VTs separation. It led us to select the optimal time series images to be used in the VTs classification. We then compared single-date and multi-temporal datasets of Landsat 8 images within the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform as the input to the Random Forest classifier for VTs detection. The single-date classification gave a median Overall Kappa (OK) and Overall Accuracy (OA) of 51% and 64%, respectively. Instead, using multi-temporal images led to an overall kappa accuracy of 74% and an overall accuracy of 81%. Thus, the exploitation of multi-temporal datasets favored accurate VTs classification. In addition, the presented results underline that available open access cloud-computing platforms such as the GEE facilitates identifying optimal periods and multitemporal imagery for VTs classification.

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Google Earth Enginemachine learningmulti-temporal imagesNDVIvegetation types classification

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