A Rule-based Land Cover Classification Method for the Heihe River Basin

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  • 1. Center for Hydrologic Cycle and Water Resources Research in Arid Region, College of Earth and Environmental Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA;
    3. Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China

Received date: 2010-07-22

  Revised date: 2010-12-20

  Online published: 2011-04-20

Supported by

MOST 863 Project No.2008AA12Z205; Knowledge Innovation Project CAS, No.KZCX2-YW-Q10-1

Abstract

A novel rule-based land use/land cover classification approach is presented in this study. Rule tables were generated based on geographic characteristics of each class of the China land use classification schema and its possible transferability into other classes of the USGS schema. The USGS land use/land cover (LULC) data product, with a 1-km spatial resolution, was used to locate clustering centers, referred as NDVI fingerprints, of each land use class. A minimum distance approach was then applied to the 1 km NDVI of the year 2009 and 90 m DEM of the Heihe River Basin (HRB), with rule tables considered, to produce a land use/land cover map with schema and attributes consistent with USGS's. The produced map can be used in atmospheric models and land surface models. A comparison to the previous work and satellite images indicates that our rule-based approach is better in distinguishing land cover characteristics, especially for snow-cover, frozen soil and desert types.

Cite this article

HOU Yuting, WANG Shugong, NAN Zhuotong . A Rule-based Land Cover Classification Method for the Heihe River Basin[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2011 , 66(4) : 549 -561 . DOI: 10.11821/xb201104011

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