Remote sensing analysis of belmira's paramo vegeatation with landsat imagery [Teledetección de la vegetación del páramo de belmira con imágenes landsat]

The purpose of this study is to distinguish the forest of Belmira's Páramo from other land cover classes. Three LANDSAT images are available (1996, 2002 and 2003). Remote sensing analysis of the vegetation coverage includes image correction and classification and validation process. The COS(t)...

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Fecha de publicación:
2012
Institución:
Universidad de Medellín
Repositorio:
Repositorio UDEM
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.udem.edu.co:11407/1333
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/11407/1333
Palabra clave:
Belmira's paramo
Classification
LANDSAT
Remote sensing analysis
Vegetation
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restrictedAccess
License
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Description
Summary:The purpose of this study is to distinguish the forest of Belmira's Páramo from other land cover classes. Three LANDSAT images are available (1996, 2002 and 2003). Remote sensing analysis of the vegetation coverage includes image correction and classification and validation process. The COS(t) model and the quadratic interpolation function were used for image correction. The iterative self-organizing cluster analysis is considered for image non supervised classification and the maximum likelihood classifier is taken into account for image supervised classification. 70 GPS land observations and the error matrix analysis, were used for validation process. The Result is a map for each image, with two land cover categories: forest & non-forest. Classification error is 2% and map-land observations correspondence is 80%. However, the presence of clouds and shadows affect the remote sensing accuracy.