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Comparison of Landscape Metrics for Three Different Level Land Cover/Land Use Maps       
Yazarlar
SERTEL ELİF
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
TOPALOĞLU RAZİYE HALE
Türkiye
ŞALLI BETÜL
YAY IRMAK
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Gül Aslı BOZBAY Doç. Dr. Gül Aslı BOZBAY
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
This research aims to investigate how different landscape metrics are affected by the enhancement of the thematic classes in land cover/land use (LC/LU) maps. For this aim, three different LC/LU maps based on three different levels of CORINE (Coordination of Information on The Environment) nomenclature were created for the selected study area using GEOBIA (Geographic Object Based Image Analysis) techniques. First, second and third level LC/LU maps of the study area have five, thirteen and twenty-seven hierarchical thematic classes, respectively. High-resolution Spot 7 images with 1.5 m spatial resolution were used as the main Earth Observation data to create LC/LU maps. Additional geospatial data from open sources (OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia) were also integrated to the classification in order to identify some of the 2nd and 3rd level LC/LU classes. Classification procedure was initially conducted for Level 3 classes in which we developed decision trees to be used in object-based classification. Afterwards, Level 3 classes were merged to create Level 2 LC/LU map and then Level 2 classes were merged to create the Level 1 LC/LU map according to CORINE nomenclature. The accuracy of Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 maps are calculated as; 93.50%, 89.00%, 85.50% respectively. At the last stage, several landscape metrics such as Number of Patch (NP), Edge Density (ED), Largest Patch Index (LPI), Euclidean Nearest Neighbor Distance (ENN), Splitting Index (SPLIT) and Aggregation Index (AI) metrics and others were calculated for different level LC/LU maps and landscape metrics values were compared to analyze the impact of changing thematic details on landscape metrics. Our results show that, increasing the thematic detail allows landscape characteristics to be defined more precisely and ensure comprehensive assessment of cause and effect relationships between classes.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Landscape metrics | LCLU maps | Object based classification | SPOT
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Dergi ISSN 2220-9964
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Dergi Grubu Q1
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 10-2018
Cilt No 7
Sayı 10
Sayfalar 408 / 0
Doi Numarası 10.3390/ijgi7100408
Makale Linki http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/10/408