Abstract
Land cover map is a typical GIS database which shows the Earth's physical surface differentiated by standardized homogeneous land cover types. Satellite images acquired by Landsat ™ were primarily used to produce a land cover map of 7 land cover classes; however, it now becomes to produce a more accurate land cover classification dataset of 23 classes thanks to higher resolution satellite images, such as SPOT-5 and IKONOS. The use of the newly produced high resolution land cover map of 23 classes for such activities to estimate non-point sources of pollution like water pollution modelling and atmospheric dispersion modelling is expected to result a higher level of accuracy and validity to various environmental monitoring results.
Original language | English |
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Journal | International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives |
Volume | 35 |
State | Published - 2004 |
Event | 20th ISPRS Congress on Technical Commission VII - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 12 Jul 2004 → 23 Jul 2004 |
Keywords
- Land cover map
- Non-point source of pollution