Abstract
Land use-land cover (LULC) data are critical inputs for policy and scientific research in hydrology, climatology, territory planning and conservation. Colombia, a megadiverse country and deforestation hotspot on Earth, critically needs recent and high-resolution information on land use and land cover. Using Landsat OLI 8 data, we here present a new LULC product for the Colombian Amazon and Andes at 30 m × 30 m resolution for year 2018, using classification and validation procedures based on the Google Earth Engine cloud-based platform. The novel products show high overall accuracy (>90%), are achieved with high automatization and improve current coarser LULC datasets for Colombia. All the processing procedures used are open access and distributable to the scientific community.
| Translated title of the contribution | Un producto de uso y cobertura del suelo de 30 m de resolución para los Andes colombianos y la Amazonia utilizando computación en la nube |
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| Original language | English (US) |
| Article number | 102688 |
| Journal | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation |
| Volume | 107 |
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| State | Published - Mar 1 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Global and Planetary Change
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Computers in Earth Sciences
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law