Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images
This work aims to develop a new method to map Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classes in the São Paulo State, Brazil, using Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data. The novelty of the proposed method consists of selecting the images based on the spectral and temporal characteristics of the LULC...
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| author | Yosio E. Shimabukuro Egidio Arai Gabriel M. da Silva Tânia B. Hoffmann Valdete Duarte Paulo R. Martini Andeise Cerqueira Dutra Guilherme Mataveli Henrique L. G. Cassol Marcos Adami |
| author_facet | Yosio E. Shimabukuro Egidio Arai Gabriel M. da Silva Tânia B. Hoffmann Valdete Duarte Paulo R. Martini Andeise Cerqueira Dutra Guilherme Mataveli Henrique L. G. Cassol Marcos Adami |
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| description | This work aims to develop a new method to map Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classes in the São Paulo State, Brazil, using Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data. The novelty of the proposed method consists of selecting the images based on the spectral and temporal characteristics of the LULC classes. First, we defined the six classes to be mapped in the year 2020 as forest, forest plantation, water bodies, urban areas, agriculture, and pasture. Second, we visually analyzed their variability spectral characteristics over the year. Then, we pre-processed these images to highlight each LULC class. For the classification, the Random Forest algorithm available on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform was utilized individually for each LULC class. Afterward, we integrated the classified maps to create the final LULC map. The results revealed that forest areas are primarily concentrated in the eastern region of São Paulo, predominantly on steeper slopes, accounting for 19% of the study area. On the other hand, pasture and agriculture dominated 73% of all São Paulo’s landscape, reaching 39% and 34%, respectively. The overall accuracy of the classification achieved 89.10%, while producer and user accuracies were greater than 84.20% and 76.62%, respectively. To validate the results, we compared our findings with the MapBiomas Project classification, obtaining an overall accuracy of 85.47%. Therefore, our method demonstrates its potential to minimize classification errors and offers the advantage of facilitating post-classification editing for individual mapped classes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8fc075b309a744629cfd64ed11aa19182023-11-19T01:10:20ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072023-08-01148166910.3390/f14081669Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction ImagesYosio E. Shimabukuro0Egidio Arai1Gabriel M. da Silva2Tânia B. Hoffmann3Valdete Duarte4Paulo R. Martini5Andeise Cerqueira Dutra6Guilherme Mataveli7Henrique L. G. Cassol8Marcos Adami9Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, BrazilThis work aims to develop a new method to map Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classes in the São Paulo State, Brazil, using Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data. The novelty of the proposed method consists of selecting the images based on the spectral and temporal characteristics of the LULC classes. First, we defined the six classes to be mapped in the year 2020 as forest, forest plantation, water bodies, urban areas, agriculture, and pasture. Second, we visually analyzed their variability spectral characteristics over the year. Then, we pre-processed these images to highlight each LULC class. For the classification, the Random Forest algorithm available on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform was utilized individually for each LULC class. Afterward, we integrated the classified maps to create the final LULC map. The results revealed that forest areas are primarily concentrated in the eastern region of São Paulo, predominantly on steeper slopes, accounting for 19% of the study area. On the other hand, pasture and agriculture dominated 73% of all São Paulo’s landscape, reaching 39% and 34%, respectively. The overall accuracy of the classification achieved 89.10%, while producer and user accuracies were greater than 84.20% and 76.62%, respectively. To validate the results, we compared our findings with the MapBiomas Project classification, obtaining an overall accuracy of 85.47%. Therefore, our method demonstrates its potential to minimize classification errors and offers the advantage of facilitating post-classification editing for individual mapped classes.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/8/1669Land Use and Land Cover (LULC)forestforest plantationagriculturepastureurban |
| spellingShingle | Yosio E. Shimabukuro Egidio Arai Gabriel M. da Silva Tânia B. Hoffmann Valdete Duarte Paulo R. Martini Andeise Cerqueira Dutra Guilherme Mataveli Henrique L. G. Cassol Marcos Adami Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images Forests Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) forest forest plantation agriculture pasture urban |
| title | Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images |
| title_full | Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images |
| title_fullStr | Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images |
| title_short | Mapping Land Use and Land Cover Classes in São Paulo State, Southeast of Brazil, Using Landsat-8 OLI Multispectral Data and the Derived Spectral Indices and Fraction Images |
| title_sort | mapping land use and land cover classes in sao paulo state southeast of brazil using landsat 8 oli multispectral data and the derived spectral indices and fraction images |
| topic | Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) forest forest plantation agriculture pasture urban |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/8/1669 |
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