Fifty years of land use and land cover mapping in the United Arab Emirates: a machine learning approach using Landsat satellite data

This study analyses the spatiotemporal distribution of land use and land cover (LULC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past 50 years (1972–2021) using 72 multi-temporal Landsat satellite images. Three machine learning (ML) classifiers, Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Support Vec...

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Main Authors: Mubbashra Sultan, Salem Issa, Basam Dahy, Nazmi Saleous, Mabrouk Sami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1510510/full