title: [Land cover classification of Four Lakes Region in Hubei Province based on MODIS and ENVISAT data].
abstract: Based on the differences of back scattering coefficient in ENVISAT ASAR data, a classification was made on the towns, waters, and vegetation-covered areas in the Four Lakes Region of Hubei Province. According to the local cropping systems and phenological characteristics in the region, and by using the discrepancies of the MODIS-NDVI index from late April to early May, the vegetation-covered areas were classified into croplands and non-croplands. The classification results based on the above-mentioned procedure was verified by the classification results based on the ETM data with high spatial resolution. Based on the DEM data, the non-croplands were categorized into forest land and bottomland; and based on the discrepancies of mean NDVI index per month, the crops were identified as mid rice, late rice, and cotton, and the croplands were identified as paddy field and upland field. The land cover classification based on the MODIS data with low spatial resolution was basically consistent with that based on the ETM data with high spatial resolution, and the total error rate was about 13.15% when the classification results based on ETM data were taken as the standard. The utilization of the above-mentioned procedures for large scale land cover classification and mapping could make the fast tracking of regional land cover classification.
authors.affiliation: School of Agronomy, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China. xuebs21@163.com
authors.forename: Lian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Wei-Bin
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Qin-Xue
authors.initials: QX
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Zhang-Yong
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017215:Satellite Communications / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development*; D053833:Wetlands