Comparison of optical and SAR data in tropical land cover classification for REDD+

Laura Sirro; Tuomas Häme; Yrjö Rauste; Oleg Antropov; Jarno Hämäläinen; Petri Latva-Käyrä; Fernando Paz; Bernardus de Jong

Comparison of optical and SAR data in tropical land cover classification for REDD+

Laura Sirro, Tuomas Häme, Yrjö Rauste, Oleg Antropov, Jarno Hämäläinen, Petri Latva-Käyrä, Fernando Paz, Bernardus de Jong

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A comparison study was performed to evaluate the applicability of optical and SAR data for land cover classification for REDD+ services on a test site in Chiapas State in Mexico. The accuracy of the maps was assessed using an independent data set that was collected from very high resolution optical data. The overall accuracy of the maps varied between 79 % of ENVISAT ASAR and 94 % of RapidEye for the forest - non-forest classifications. The accuracies for the six IPCC compliant classes were from 5 to 9 percentage units lower. Results that were obtained with the optical data were somewhat better than the results using SAR data. However, the difference between the optical and SAR results was fairly small when L-band SAR data were used. L-band SAR data seem to be competitive alternative for optical data particularly in the areas with frequent cloud cover

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013
Editors	Leny Ouwehand
Place of Publication	Noordwijk
Publisher	European Space Agency (ESA)
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-92-9221-286-5
Publication status	Published - 2013
MoE publication type	B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event	ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Sept 2013 → 13 Sept 2013 Conference number: ESA SP-722

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Conference	ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	9/09/13 → 13/09/13

Keywords

Remote sensing
land cover
classification
REDD
optical
SAR

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Sirro, L, Häme, T, Rauste, Y, Antropov, O, Hämäläinen, J, Latva-Käyrä, P, Paz, F & de Jong, B 2013, Comparison of optical and SAR data in tropical land cover classification for REDD+. in L Ouwehand (ed.), Proceedings of the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013. European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 9/09/13. <ftp://ftp.spacecenter.dk/pub/Ioana/papers/s452_3sirr.pdf>

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Comparison of optical and SAR data in tropical land cover classification for REDD+

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